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Contents Preface vii The History of the Word Vampire 3 Katharina M. Wilson The Vampire in Roumania 12 Agnes Murgoci The Romanian Folkloric Vampire 35 Jan Louis Perkowski East European Vampires 47 Felix Oinas In Defense of Vampires 57 John V. A. Fine, Jr. South Slavic Countermeasures against Vampires 67 Friedrich S. Krauss The Killing of a Vampire 72 Veselin Cajkanovic The Greek Vampire: A Study of Cyclic Symbolism in Marriage and Death 85 Juliette du Boulay Forensic Pathology and the European Vampire 109 Paul Barber Clinical Vampirism: Blending Myth and Reality 143 Philip D. Jaffe and Frank DiCataldo The Vampire as Bloodthirsty Revenant: A Psychoanalytic Post Mortem 159 Alan Dundes A Selected Bibliography: Suggestions for Further Reading on the Vampire 179 Index 181 v ...

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