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A

Abenaki people

Aborigines: cannibalism; cremation; malevolent spirits; treatment of corpses

Absolution

Achomawi Indians

Adipocere

Aegira, Achaia, Greece

Afanasiev, Alexander

Aghia, Greece

Agron, Salvatore

Alastors (avengers)

Algul (demon)

Aliens, vampires as

Alvise Mocenigo I, Doge (Venice)

Anantis Castle, England

Anghiera, Pietro Martyre

Angola: zombies

Animal sacrifices
see
Sacrifices

Arabia: demons

Archaeology: cannibalism evidence; oldest ritual burials; purpose of burials; study of plague victims

Argens, Marquis d’

Argos, Greece: sacrifices

Armenia: Bogomils

Arnhem Land, Australia

Assyrian cylinder seal

Aswangs (supernatural creatures)

Atapuerca Mountains, Spain

Australia: cannibalism; cremation; malevolent spirits; treatment of corpses

Austria: control of Serbia; quarantine stations

B

Bajang (spirit)

Balkans: funeral traditions; primeval forests; shamans; Slavonic liturgy; traditional culture; vampire folklore; werewolves

Banks Island, South Pacific Ocean: shamans

Barber, Paul: on body decay and vampire characteristics; corpse sounds; definition of vampire

Baring-Gould, Sabine

Batak people

Báthory, Elizabeth

Bats: demons as; symbolism; vampire bats; vampires as

Baudelaire, Charles

Beheading
see
Decapitation

Bell, Michael

Bellantoni, Nick

Benares, India

Benedetti, Rocco

Benedict XIV, Pope

Bérard, Cyprien

Berwick, England: reanimation

Bhutas (spirits)

Bioluminescence

Black Death
see
Plagues

Blaise, St.

Blake, William

Bleak House
(Dickens)

Blood: bathing in; as life force

Blood drinking: cannibalism and; clinical vampirism; by the dead; by demons; by fictional vampires; by porphyria patients; for prophesying; sexual excitement and; for strength

Blood sacrifices
see
Sacrifices

Body snatchers

Bogomils

Boris I, Khan (Bulgaria)

Bororo people

Borrini, Matteo

Botocudo people

Brazil: blood drinking; burial practices; cannibalism; zombies

Breslau (Wroclaw), Poland: ghost stories

Bricks: in mouths of corpses

Brontë, Charlotte

Brontë, Emily

Brown, Edwin

Brown, George

Brown, Mary Eliza

Brown, Mary Olive

Brown, Mercy

Browne, Edward

Browne, Sir Thomas

Browning, Tod

Bubonic plague
see
Plagues

Buckingham, England: reanimation

Buddhism

Budge, Sir Wallis

Bürger, Gottfried

Burial practices: in ancient cultures; arising from fear of the dead; bricks in mouths of corpses; in China; communal graves; decapitation; in Japan; live burial; in Melanesia; overcrowding; for plague victims; premature burial; prone position; as punishment; soil fertility and; in South America; vertical position;
see also
Cemeteries; Funerary rites

Burke, William

Burking

Burma: shamans

Burning
see
Corpses, desecration of; Cremation

Burton, Abbot of

Burton, Sir Richard Francis

Byron, Lord

C

Cadavers
see
Corpses

Callatian people

Calmet, Dom Augustin

Canada: body snatchers

Cannibalism

Carmilla
(Le Fanu)

Carniola (Slovenia)

Carpathian Mountains, Europe

Çatal Hüyük, Turkey

Catalepsies

Cats, as vampires

Caucasus Mountains, Asia-Europe: exposure of corpses; lightning victims

Cemeteries: causing disease; graveyard effluvium; hauntings; overcrowding; sounds from; St. Michan’s Church, Dublin, Ireland; Walton Cemetery, Griswold, Connecticut; working conditions;
see also

Burial practices

Cernunnos (god)

Charlemagne

Charles I, King (Great Britain)

Charles VI, Emperor (Roman Empire)

Chase, Richard Trenton

Cherokee Indians

Children: cannibalism by their mothers; vulnerability

Chimpanzees

China: burial practices; double soul concept; pretas; vampires

Ch’ing shih (Chinese vampire)

Cholera

Chopin, Frédéric-François

Christianity: accusations against pagans; demonization of revenants; funeral and burial rites; last rites; threats from dualistic movements; vision of spiritual universe;
see also
Eastern Orthodoxy; Roman Catholicism

Claremont, Claire

Clement of Alexandria

Clement VI, Pope

Clinical vampirism

Clovis, King (France)

Coffins, blood-filled

Comas

Comic books

Consumption
see
Tuberculosis

Corpses: bioluminescence; bloating; blood at the mouth; bricks in mouths; buoyancy; decomposition; demonic possession; differentiated from ghosts; disposal methods; excarnation; medical dissections; postmortem changes; purge fluid; smoke-drying; sounds from; vampiric state;
see also
Cremation; Exhumations; Reanimation

Corpses, desecration of: burning; decapitation; dismemberment; punishment for; reasons for; removal of heart

Cremation: in Britain; difficulty of; in Greece; in prehistory; religious prohibitions; of witches

Crime, vampire-inspired

Cromwell, Oliver

Cyril (missionary)

D

Danang (demon)

D’Arch Smith, Timothy

Darius, King (Persia)

Davanzati, Giuseppe

David Copperfield
(Dickens)

David-Neel, Alexandra

De Masticatione Mortuorum
(Rohr)

De Tournefort, Joseph Pitton

Deane, Hamilton

Death: in art; battle for soul; fascination with; fear of; realm of;
see also
Corpses

Decapitation: in ancient Persia; of corpses; of criminals; display of severed heads; in England

Defoe, Daniel

Demonic possession: Bogomil beliefs; causing vampirism; of excommunicates; Shaman’s battles against; signs of; vulnerable populations; of witches

Devil

DiCataldo, Frank

Dickens, Charles

Dictionnaire philosophique
(Voltaire)

Dinka people

Disease: causing vampirism; from cemeteries;
see also
Cholera; Epidemics; Rabies; Tuberculosis

Disenchantment by decapitation

Dolní Vestonice, Czech Republic: burials

Dolphin, David

Dorman, Rushton M.

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Dracula
(movie)

Dracula
(Stoker): Abraham Van Helsing; awards; corpse light; Dracula; Dracula’s death ; Dracula’s name; inspiration for; Jonathan Harker; Lucy Westenra; Mina Harker; movie adaptations; nosferatu in; overview of story; praise for; promotion of; setting for; stage adaptations; vampire slayers

Dracula, Count: actors portraying; clothing; fangs; in popular culture; postmortem bloating; shape-shifting;
see also

Vlad the Impaler

The Dracula Tape
(Saberhagen)

Dragons

Dualist religions

Durham, Edith

Düsseldorf, Germany: serial murders

E

East Prussia: vampire remedy

Eastern Orthodoxy

Egypt: funerary practices; vampire origins

Electricity and reanimation

Elijah the Thunderer (god)

Endo-cannibalism

Engels, Friedrich

England: body snatchers; burial practices; cholera outbreak; corpse desecration; executions; hill fort burials

Epidemics

Eretiks

Eskimo shamans

Estrie (demon)

Ethiopia: prehistoric cannibalism

Evans, W. E. D.

Excarnation

Excommunication

Exeter, Rhode Island: tuberculosis outbreak

Exhumations: archaeological; Eastern Orthodox;
see also
Corpses, desecration of

Exo-cannibalism

Exposure of corpses

F

“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe)

Fangs

Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Ferrell, Roderick

Flückinger, Johannes

Flying foxes

Forensic anthropology

Foster, Rhode Island: tuberculosis outbreak

Fournier, Jacques

France: werewolves

Frankenstein
(Shelley)

Frazer, Sir James

Frederick II, King (Prussia)

Freud, Sigmund

Frost, Thomas

Funerary rites: in ancient Egypt; burial practices; cannibalism; of gypsies; incorporating the dead; in India; Islamic; neglect of; purpose of

Funerary urns

G

Galvanism

Ganges River, India-Bangladesh

Garlic

Gatherings from Grave Yards
(Walker)

Genetic disorders

George, St.

George II, King (England)

Gerard, Emily

Germany: folklore; werewolves

Gettysburg, Battle of (1863)

Ghost ships

Ghost stories

Gladstone, William

Godwin, Mary
see
Shelley, Mary Godwin

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

The Golden Bough
(Frazer)

Gomez-Alonso, Juan

Grave robbing
see
Body snatchers

Graves
see
Burial practices; Cemeteries

Graves, Alfred Perceval

Greece: cremation; sacrifices; Strix; vrykolakas

Grimaldi, Constantino

Griswold, Connecticut

Grunau, Simon

Gundestrup Cauldron

Gunwinggu people

Gypsies

H

Haarmann, Fritz

Haigh, John

Haiti: zombies

Halford, Sir Henry

Hamlet
(Shakespeare)

Hampl, Jeffery

Hampl, William

Hanging executions

Hanielus, Ignatius

Hanover, Germany: serial murders

Hapsburgs

Hare, William

Harriot, Thomas

Harrison, John Scott

Harrison, Thomas

Hearn, Lafcadio

Hebrew folklore

Hell: hierarchy

Helmold (priest)

Henry VIII, King (England)

Heretics

Herodotus

Heston, Charlton

Highgate Cemetery, London, England

Hinduism

History of Brazil
(Southey)

Hoffman, Kuno

Hogg, James

Honduras: cannibalism

Hooke, Samuel

Hotel Transylvania
(Yarbro)

Human sacrifice

Hungary: traditional culture; vampire epidemics

The Hunger
(Strieber)

Huntington, Richard

I

I Am Legend
(Matheson)

Immortality

Impalement;
see also
Vlad the Impaler

Inca

Incubus (demon)

India: aboriginal inhabitants; exposure platforms; funerary rites; vampires

Indian mounds

Indo-Europeans: deities; history; nature myths

Indra (thunder god)

Infants, vulnerability of

Innocent VIII, Pope

Islam

Italy: vampires; witches

Ivanov, V. V.

Ives, Edward

J

Jack the Ripper

Jaffé, Philip

James, M. R.

Jane Eyre
(Brontë)

Jane Seymour, Queen (England)

Jani Beg, Khan

Janissaries

Japan: burial customs; ghost ships; vampire cat

Java (island), Indonesia: demons

Jenner, Edward

Jews, scapegoating of

Joan of Arc

Journal of the Plague Year
(Defoe)

Joyce, James

Jutland Peninsula, Denmark

K

Kalang

Karen people

Keats, John

Kikongo (language)

Kimbundu (language)

Kisilova, Serbia

Kleinpaul, Rudolf

Knox, Robert

Koch, Robert

Kresnik (reanimated corpse)

Kürten, Peter

L

La Barre, Weston

Lang, Fritz

Langsuir (vampire)

Larvae

Last rites

Lawson, John Cuthbert

Le Fanu, Sheridan

Le Rouge, Gustave

Lenore
(Bürger)

Leprosy

Life span

Ligeia
(Poe)

Lightning victims

Lilith, Queen of the Succubi

Linguistics

Linnaeus, Carolus

London, England: cemetery conditions; cholera outbreaks; in
Dracula
(Stoker); Great Plague; Highgate Cemetery

Longevity

Louis XVIII, King (France)

Lucian of Samosata

Lugosi, Béla

Lusia (psychic)

Lycanthropy

M

M
(movie)

MacCulloch, John Arnott

Malaysia: demons

Malekula

Mam (spirits)

Manchester, Seán

Mandurugo (bloodsucker)

Map, Walter

Maria Theresa, Empress

Martin, Stella

Martinique, West Indies: zombies

Marx, Karl

Matheson, Richard

Mato Grosso, Brazil: burial practices

Maya

McClelland, Bruce

McNeill, William H.

Medvegia, Serbia

Mehmed II, Sultan (Ottoman Empire)

Melanesia: reanimation

Melrose Abbey, England

Menzies, Allan

“Metamorphosis of the Vampire” (Baudelaire)

Metcalf, Peter

Methodius (missionary)