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Food for the Dead

- On the Trail of New England Vampires

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  • E-bog, ePub
  • Engelsk
  • 424 sider
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These stories of vampire legends and gruesome nineteenth-century practices is 'a major contribution to the study of New England folk beliefs' (The Boston Globe).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. 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 into the twentieth century. With humor, insight, and sympathy, he uncovers story upon story of dying men, women, and children who believed they were food for the dead.'A marvelous book.' -Providence JournalIncludes an updated preface covering newly discovered cases.

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