While they are preceded by other semantic shifts in the folklore of witchcraft, particularly alterations that occur in the period between the World-Wars, there is something highly distinctive about the way these tales articulate troubling relations involving money, global markets, zombie-labour and ...
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal life force. In most cases, they are reanimated corpses who feed by draining and consuming the blood of living beings. In folklore, the term usually refers to the blood-drinking humans of Eastern European legends, ...
Dracula, arguably the most famous vampire of all time, is the fictional monster that put revenants (human corpses that return from the grave to harm the living) on the map in the late 19th century. But some historians think that a real person —Vlad the Impaler, or Vlad III, a medieval...
Andrew Baird:Yeah, as I said, to have had the family African American in that scenario was just too much. Particularly as a white guy dealing with an African American family that is being persecuted. It's a no no. It's too much of a hot topic. If I was an African, or an African...
Vampires that, at will, can transform into wolves, panthers, insects, or fog invade the Slayer base of operations in northern Scotland, and not only walk a... J Whedon,D Goddard,A Owens,... 被引量: 1发表: 2008年 From Folklore to Fiction: Early Literary Manifestations of the Vampire Mo...
contributedtotheculturalhistoryofalmosteverycontinentintheworld,beitthrough oralretellingoractualdocumentation. Therehasbeenlittlerespectforstudiesintotheexistenceofvampires,acreature thatislongconsideredtohavebeenaproductofsuperstition,givenlifebythe whispersoflegendandfolklore.Theauthorsofthisguidearegreatadmirersof ...