Vampire Forensics (28 page)

Mexico: sacrifices

Mirabilia
(Phlegon)

Mirrors, fear of

Mitford, Algernon B.

Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion
(Lawson)

Modi, Sir Ervad Jivanji Jamshedji

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Moonbeams

More, Henry

Mothers: cannibalism of children; vulnerability of

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
(Thompson)

Movies

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mulo (undead)

Mummies

Mungo Lady

Murder, vampire-inspired

Murnau, Friedrich

Mykonos (island), Greece

Mytilene (island), Greece

N

Nachzehrer (after-devourer)

Native Americans

New Caledonia, South Pacific Ocean: reanimation

New England: burials; vampire epidemics

Nicaragua: cannibalism

Nicholas Nickleby
(Dickens)

Nicholls, Peter

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Night terrors

Nocturnal habits of vampires

Nodier, Charles

Nosferatu
(movie)

Nosferatu (vampire): origin of term

Notre Dame, Paris, France

O

Obsequies

Odyssey
(Homer)

Ojibwa Indians

Orang minyak (oily men)

Orthodox Church
see
Eastern Orthodoxy

Osiris (god)

Ossenfelder, Heinrich August

Ottoman Empire: battle with Vlad the Impaler; cemeteries; extent; independence from

Owls

P

Paganism: accusations against

Christians; deities; sacrifices; vampires

Pandemics

Paole, Arnold

Paris, France: fascination with death; plague

Parsees

Pasteur, Louis

Peat bogs

Pellagra

Penanggalen (supernatural predator)

Penny dreadful novels

Pentsch, Poland: in ghost stories

Pepys, Samuel

Persia: archaeology

Perun (god)

Philip V, King (France)

Philip VI, King (France)

Philippines: spirits

Phlegon

Pisachas (flesh-eaters)

Plagues: Black Death; burials; causes; forensic anthropology; quarantine stations; scapegoats; spread; symptoms

Planché, James

Plogojowitz, Peter

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poetic Views of the Slavs Toward Nature
(Afanasiev)

Polidori, John

Polynesians

Pontianak (vampire)

Popular culture

Porphyria

Powell, Anthony

Pregnant women, vulnerability of

Premature burial

Pretas (deceased)

Price, Jesus Christ

Price, Vincent

Price, William

Le prisonnier de la planète Mars
(Le Rouge)

Prophecies

Protovampires

Psychopathia Sexualis
(von Krafft-Ebing)

Purgatory

Purge fluid

Q

Queen of the Damned
(Rice)

R

Rabies

Rakshasas (destroyers)

Ray, Horace

Reanimation: Antantis Castle, England; benevolent revenants; Berwick, England; Buckingham, England; causes of; letter of absolution; Melrose Abbey, England; Mykonos (island), Greece; Newburgh Abbey, England; premature burial and; prevention; resurrection; Toradja people; undead; zombies

Redesdale, Baron

Reincarnation

Resurrectionists
see
Body snatchers

Revenants
see
Reanimation

Rice, Anne

Richard, Father François

Rigor mortis

Riva, James

Roanoke Island, North Carolina: shamans

Rohr, Philip

Roman Catholicism: last rites; purgatory; Rousseau and; transubstantiation; vampires and; Voltaire and

Romani
see
Gypsies

Romania: history; vampires; witches

Rome, ancient

Rosetti, Dinu

Rother, Adam

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rudiger, Joshua

Russia: religions; vampires

S

Saberhagen, Fred

Sacrifices

Salem, Massachusetts: witchcraft trials

Santorini (island), Greece

Saponification

Satan

Scapegoats

Scavengers

Scholomance

Scidmore, Eliza

Science fiction

Scientific reports of vampires

Scotland: body snatchers

Seabrook, William B.

Serbia: traditional culture; vampire epidemics; vampire folklore

Sewell, Brocard

Sexuality: blood drinking and; of succubi; of vampires

Shakespeare, William

Shamans;
see also
Witches and sorcerers

Shape-shifting: into bats; by dragons; into owls; by rakshasas; by werewolves

Shelley, Mary Godwin

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Shreck, Max

“The Sick Rose” (Blake)

Sigismund, King (Bohemia)

Sima de los Huesos, Spain

Skhul Cave, Israel

Skin, postmortem changes in

Slavic peoples: conversion to Christianity; folklore; history; linguistics; paganism; shamans

Sledzik, Paul

Smallpox

Smith, Will

Smoke-drying of corpses

Snow, John

Sorcerers
see
Witches and sorcerers

South America: burial practices

Southey, Robert

St. Michan’s Church, Dublin, Ireland

Staking through heart

Stetson, George R.

Stiles, Robert

Stillborn infants

Stöder (traveler)

Stoker, Bram: career; childhood; death; literature familiar to;
see also Dracula
(Stoker)

Stoker, Florence

The Story of How the Pagans Honored Their Idols

Strieber, Whitley

Strix (mythic death-bird)

Stubbe, Peter

Styria, Austria: vampires

Succubi (female demons)

Sudan: live burial

Suicide

Sulawesi (island), Indonesia: fear of the dead

Sumatra (island), Indonesia: shamans

Sumerian demonology

Summers, Montague

Sunlight hypersensitivity

Swieten, Gerard van

T

Tales of Old Japan
(Mitford)

Tapuya people

Taranis (god)

Taylor, Timothy

Television programs

Theater

Thomas, Lewis

Thompson, Reginald Campbell

Thompson, Stith

Thoreau, Henry David

Thracians

Tibet: exposure of corpses; shamans

Titian (artist)

Tongaranka people

Toporov, V.

Toradja people

Torres Strait Islanders

Totem and Taboo
(Freud)

Towers of Silence

Tozer, Henry

Traité sur les Apparitions des Esprits, et sur les Vampires
(Calmet)

Transylvania (region), Romania

Trelawny, Edward John

Trigg, Elwood B.

“True Blood” (HBO series)

Tuberculosis: cultural explanations for; epidemics; preventive measures; symptoms; vampire epidemics and

Twitchell, James

Tylor, Edward B.

Typhus

U

Ukraine: vampires

Undead
see
Reanimation

United States: body snatchers

Urnfield culture

V

Vaccaei people

The Vampire: His Kith and Kin
(Summers)

Vampire bats

Vampire Chronicles
(Rice)

Vampire epidemics: New England; Serbia

The Vampire in Europe
(Summers)

Vampire slayers

Vampires: characteristics of; earliest known representation; etymology

Vampires (gang)

Vampires, Burials, and Death
(Barber)

I Vampiri
(Davanzati)

Vampiric condition
see
Corpses: vampiric state “The Vampyre” (Byron)

Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood

Veles, Macedonia

Venice, Italy: exhumation and study of plague victims; plague; public health measures

Vetalas (unsatisfied dead)

Victoria, Queen (United Kingdom)

Vienna, Austria: plague

Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry
(Burton)

Vlad II Dracul

Vlad III Dracula
see
Vlad the Impaler

Vlad the Impaler: death and burial; exaggerations about; as model for Dracula; in Romanian history

Volos (god)

Voltaire

Von Krafft-Ebing, Richard

Voodoo

A Voyage into the Levant
(de Tournefort)

Vrykolakas (undead)

Vultures

W

Walker, George Alfred

Walking dead
see
Reanimation

Wallachia (region), Romania

Walls, Denis

Walpole, Horace

Walton Cemetery, Connecticut

Wandering dead
see
Reanimation

Warg (wolf)

Wellington, Duke of

Wells, James W.

Wends

Werewolves

Wilkinson, William

William of Newburgh

Willoughby-Meade, Gerald

Witches and sorcerers: causing diseases; characteristics of; in Christianity; demonic possession of; European hysteria; execution of; familiars; in Native American mythology; in paganism; in the Philippines; reanimating the dead; reanimation of; relationship to vampires; in Salem, Massachusetts; shamans and; in Slavic cultures;
see also
Shamans

Wizards
see
Witches and sorcerers

Wojdyla, Elizabeth

Women, vulnerability of

Wordsworth, William

Worms

Wroclaw, Poland
see
Breslau (Wroclaw), Poland

Wuthering Heights
(Brontë)

Y

Yanomamo Indians

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn

Yearsley, MacLeod

Yeats, William Butler

Young, Almira

Young, Levi

Young, Nancy

Z

Zapotec Indians

Zombies