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“Throughout the shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both.”
Montague Summers
Abstract This article on clinical vampirism also known as Renfield’s syndrome presents an overview of this rare syndrome and gives perspective into clinical practice with a “vampire” client through a case study. Additionally, other people who drink animal blood and receive injections of their own blood for nutrition and health reasons are discussed. Implications and … Read more
From The American Anthropologist, Vol. IX, No. 1, January, 1896 The belief in the vampire and the whole family of demons has its origin in the animism, spiritism, or personification of the barbarian, who, unable to distinguish the objective from the subjective, ascribes good and evil influences and all natural phenomena to good and evil … Read more
From The American Journal of Physical Anthropology No. 94 (1994) Many cultures have developed folk beliefs to explain the natural phenomena associated with death and disease (Aries, 1981). The folk belief in vampires, found in many cultures, incorporates interpretations of death and disease. The vampire image found in contemporary Euroamerican culture is based solely on … Read more
It happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of the ton a nobleman more remarkable for his singularities, than his rank. He gazed upon the mirth around him, as if he could not participate therein. Apparently, the light laughter of the … Read more