Folklore
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The “Vampire Priest” Myths and Clergy Alleged to Consume Human Blood
The myth of the “vampire priest” embodies humanity’s deepest fears about authority’s corruption, transforming blood from a sacred symbol to…
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Resurrecting the Undead: Petar Blagojević and the Birth of Vampire Mythology
The death of Petar Blagojević in 1725 spurred one of the earliest vampire panics, with villagers believing his improper burial…
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Noble Blood and Dark Rituals: The Enigmatic Death of Countess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg
Countess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg’s funeral rites, rumored to include anti-vampire measures, illuminate the cultural fears of death and supernatural return…
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The Monstrous Other and Virtual Vampires Transgressions
In a literal interpretation, vampires are representative of the fears of the cultures which produce them
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The Folklore Vampire: The Monstrous Other
This horrifying suspicion that each human being could potentially be naturally deviant was an enormous threat to the function of…
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Vampirism as a Malevolent or Medical Source?
Folkloric accounts bear witness to these “vampires” being discovered gorged and bloated, with dried blood encrusted around the mouth, having…
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Unearthing the Witch, and the Folkloric Diabolical Goddesses
This article examines the witch as depicted through the schemes of those who benefited from the image of the diabolical…
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Krampus, the Fearsome Christmas Horned Punisher
In ancient times, a dark, hairy, horned beast was said to show up at the door to beat children, and…
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Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Malevolent Nurture
Academic writings on witchcraft have “a hidden agenda”: to show the academic to be sceptical, impartial, and sophisticated in contrast…
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Sorcery and the Little Demon of the Hearth and Home
The early centuries of the Middle Ages, when the legends were in the making, give all the impression of a…
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The Realization of the Witch in the Human Sciences
While such invisible forces have gone by many names, one can track a historical persistence of this epistemological concern with…
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Encountering Eastern Vampires: Institutions of the Undead
Anne Rice’s American vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac thus expressed his disappointment at meeting the Eastern European vampire
