The Vampire in Lore and LegendCourier Corporation, 2012 M03 15 - 352 páginas "Throughout the whole vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet [looked upon] with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both." |
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... ENGLAND AND IRELAND, AND SOME LATIN LANDS CHAPTER III - HUNGARY AND CZECHO-SLOVAKIA CHAPTER IV - MODERN GREECE CHAPTER V - RUSSIA, ROUMANIA AND BULGARIA INDEX FOREWORD by Father Brocard Sewell THE REVEREND MONTAGUE SUMMERS (1880-1947)
... England in 1908. This alone gave him an unquestioned title to the style of “Reverend,” his right to which has often been called in question. But in 1909 he left the Church of England and began to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood ...
... England and Italy, one finds onself confronted, not once or twice, but literally as a whole, systematically and homogeneously, with the same beliefs, the same extraordinary happenings, unexplained and (so far as we know) inexplicable ...
... England popular knowledge of the vampire legend derives chiefly from works of fiction such as Thomas Peskett Prest's Varney the Vampire (London, 1847) and Bram Stoker's Dracula.d But prior to the sixteenth century there are many ...
... England can be applied with some truth to his own vampire and werewolf volumes, that they are a series of unconnected essays, their unity deriving from the fact that their chapters one and all relate to the same subject. Summers ...
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THE VAMPIRE IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND | |
HUNGARY AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA | |
MODERN GREECE | |
RUSSIA ROUMANIA AND BULGARIA | |
INDEX | |