Food for the Dead
On the Trail of New England's Vampires
For nineteenth-century New Englanders, vampires lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Author and folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H. P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, lasted well int…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8195-7171-7
- EAN: 9780819571717
- Produktnummer: 33161331
- Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 390 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'397 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 illus. 1 map. 2 tables.
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Michael E. Bell
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