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Dudley Wright's Vampires and Vampirism is a collection of vampire stories from cultures around Britain, Europe and the Middle East, originally published in 1914. This book covers famous and lesser-known vampire tales.
Contents:
I: Introductory
II: Excommunication and its Power
III: The Vampire in Babylonia, Assyria, and Greece
IV: Vampirism in Great and Greater Britain
V: Vampirism in Germany and Surrounding Countries
VI: Vampirism in Hungary, Bavaria, and Silesia
VII: Vampirism in Servia and Bulgaria
VIII: Vampire Belief in Russia
IX: Miscellanea
X: Living Vampires
XI: The Vampire in Literature
XII: Fact or Fiction?
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From the author's preface, dated 1914: The awakened interest in supernormal phenomena which has taken place in recent years has included in its wake the absorbing subject of Vampirism. Yet there has not been any collection published of vampire stories which are common to all the five continents of the globe. The subject of vampirism is regarded more seriously to-day than it was even a decade since, and an attempt has been made in this volume to supply as far as possible all the instances which could be collected from the various countries. How far a certain amount of scientific truth may underlie even what may be regarded as the most extravagant stories must necessarily be, for the present, at any rate, an open question; but he would indeed be a bold man who would permit his scepticism as to the objective existence of vampires in the past or the possibility of vampirism in the future to extend to a categorical denial. If this collection of stories helps, even in a slight degree, to the elucidation of the problem, the book will not have been written in vain.
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