TITLE: Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality AUTHOR: Paul Barber DATE PUBLISHED: 1988 FORMAT: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780300041262 ___________________________ DESCRIPTION: "In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first ...
It's been ages since I read this and I think it would get another star if the main thing I didn't remember so very, very clearly was the description of the process of decomposition. Specifically the "liquifaction of the eyeballs." So three stars because I am so annoyingly squeamish. But the book was...
Barber presents a rather convincing and interesting theory in this book, arguing that vampire legends and folklore developed as a means to expalin decomposition. The book is worth a read not only for the theory but als because of the amount of translation and sources that Barber looks at. If you a...
I'm not generally into archaeology/anthropology, but this intrigued me. These bodies were found in bogs, mostly in Denmark. The acidic water in the bogs preserved the bodies so well that people who found them thought they were recent murder victims and often called the police! Turns out they were...
Read long ago, when the earth was new and I was in college.
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