Transylvanian Vampires

Author : Adriana Groza
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147661492X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transylvanian Vampires written by Adriana Groza and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic vampire tales exist in Transylvanian folklore--yet the Transylvanian vampire is nothing like the bloodthirsty count of Bram Stoker's imagination or the romantic hero of popular fiction. The Romanian tradition reflects the norms of peasant life and wisdom embedded in age-old communities. This book consists of 21 narratives developed from brief accounts recorded by local anthropologists and historians from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The goal is to capture the major themes found in the existing sources. The book also includes translations of 17 brief folk stories about Vlad Ţepeş, known as Dracula. Contrary to the prevailing fictive image, these stories portray Vlad as a wise although strict ruler and a proud defender of his country's autonomy. An introduction discusses the Transylvanian village and its rich folk traditions, making explicit the comparison to the historic and to the fictional Dracula.

Author : Robert Z. Cohen
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448812283
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transylvania written by Robert Z. Cohen and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the people, beliefs, traditions, and history of Transylvania and examines the area's folklore.

Author : Adriana Groza
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477024
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transylvanian Vampires written by Adriana Groza and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic vampire tales exist in Transylvanian folklore--yet the Transylvanian vampire is nothing like the bloodthirsty count of Bram Stoker's imagination or the romantic hero of popular fiction. The Romanian tradition reflects the norms of peasant life and wisdom embedded in age-old communities. This book consists of 21 narratives developed from brief accounts recorded by local anthropologists and historians from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The goal is to capture the major themes found in the existing sources. The book also includes translations of 17 brief folk stories about Vlad Ţepeş, known as Dracula. Contrary to the prevailing fictive image, these stories portray Vlad as a wise although strict ruler and a proud defender of his country's autonomy. An introduction discusses the Transylvanian village and its rich folk traditions, making explicit the comparison to the historic and to the fictional Dracula.

Author : Mihai Spariosu
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531087107
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves written by Mihai Spariosu and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes sixteen tales from Transylvanian folklore, arranged in three sections: Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves; Haunted Treasures; and Eerie Fairy Tales.

Author : Emily Gerard
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040833075
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transylvanian Superstitions written by Emily Gerard and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0394848284
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dracula written by Bram Stoker and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1982-04-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.

Author : Istvan Pivarcsi
Publisher : New Europe Books
ISBN 13 : 0982578156
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just a Bite written by Istvan Pivarcsi and published by New Europe Books. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mustering his extensive experience on the scene of the world's richest source of vampire lore, Transylvania, historian and author István Pivárcsi seeks to peel away the effects of popular culture and set the record straight, addressing essential questions in dozens of bite-size chapters: How did vampire legends emerge in the Balkans, Romania, and Transylvania? How did other monsters eventually coalesce as what we know as vampires? Who was the real Vlad the Impaler, and how did he come to personify the classic vampire? How did vampire-related oral traditions evolve over the centuries—and then explode with unprecedented force in both literature and popular culture from the mid-nineteenth century on? The ideal short reference for anyone with at least a passing interest in the undead, Just a Bite includes an extensive two-part appendix comprising a comprehensive glossary of vampire terms as well as a chronology of human beings' fascination (and interaction) with vampires through history. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600651
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgin Vampires written by Douglas Brode and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This blend of history and dark fantasy feasts upon vampire lore, reinventing the manner in which real-life monsters were transformed into pop culture icons by two of Ireland's great writers. Dubliners Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker travel to Transylvania where they race to save the women they love from the Countess Elizabeth Bathory. After the blood bath, Le Fanu and Stoker pose as doctors John Seward and Abraham Van Helsing to confront Vlad the Impaler and Count Dracula himself. Together for the first time, this immortal cast offers a highly erotic exploration of the vampire's eternal allure.

Author : Shaina C. Indovino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1422295648
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transylvania and Beyond written by Shaina C. Indovino and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloomy old castles, desecrated tombs in the crypts of ruined churches, battlefields strewn with corpses, and the moon rising over the moors—Old Europe was the perfect setting for the myths and legends of the undead and the beast that howls in the night. It is from the folklore of Europe that much of our tradition of vampires and werewolves originates. Living with the bloody realities of ethnic and religious warfare and the terror of death by plague and starvation, Old Europeans saw the world around them as a battleground of good and evil, where beings under the control of Satan threatened them on all sides. Some of the best-known vampire lore, like the tale of the nightmarish Count Dracula, was based on the lives of actual Europeans who were so brutal and so violent that they can only be described as human monsters. From the deep recesses of Old Europe come many of the stories that still thrill and frighten us in the twenty-first century.

Author : J Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578593506
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Book written by J Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.