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  <title><![CDATA[Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality]]></title>
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  <default_description>In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1988</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paul Barber]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In <em>Vampires, Burial and Death</em> Paul Barber sets out to find the truth behind vampire folklore.  He demonstrates that most of the stories about vampires in folklore ultimately derive from a lack of understanding of the processes that bodies undergo after death.  Natural processes were misinterpreted a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19991726">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very well-researched look into the folklore of vampires (almost exclusively European).  Barber explores the differences between common fiction tropes about vampires and the folklore surrounding them from cultures/ times where people believe in their existence.  He also explores reasons why...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53062153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's been at least 5 years since I read this book as a source for a literature term paper on vampires (oh those were the days), but I think I remember liking it. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating tour thru the history of vampirism. Very well researched. Very readable.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Starts out trying to understand why lots of cultures believe in vampires. Eventually the author realized that belief in vampires is closely correlated with ignorance of what happens to dead bodies. So he studies -- in icky detail -- what actually happens when bodies decompose. Pretty danged fascinat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2733497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book many years ago and can still remember the breadth of information I learned from it.  It is a serious look at the origins of vampire legends. It portrays a sharp contrast between contemporary fiction and historical folklore and shows that our modern notions of vampire archetypes are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23932996">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great introduction to Eastern european Vampire Mythology.  Follow up with T.P. Vukanovic's impossible-to-find two-part study of Romi vampire mythology in the &quot;Journal of Gypsy Lore&quot; and you've got a full night of well-introduced and occasionally baffling Eastern European vampire folklore...]]></body>
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    <review id="2674277">
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    <body><![CDATA[forget the fiction... read the historical accounts of why people believed what they believed and how they could think up the myths that we now use for our novels, card games and spooking the children.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this as part of an anthropology class back in jc.  It makes some sense of the vampire myth from a medical perspective.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned the probable scientific and medical explanation behind the myth of the vampire.  Very interesting.]]></body>
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