Ivanov, V. V.
Ives, Edward
J
Jack the Ripper
Jaffé, Philip
James, M. R.
Jane Eyre (Brontë)
Jane Seymour, Queen (England)
Jani Beg, Khan
Janissaries
Japan: burial customs; ghost ships; vampire cat
Java (island), Indonesia: demons
Jenner, Edward
Jews, scapegoating of
Joan of Arc
Journal of the Plague Year (Defoe)
Joyce, James
Jutland Peninsula, Denmark
K
Kalang
Karen people
Keats, John
Kikongo (language)
Kimbundu (language)
Kisilova, Serbia
Kleinpaul, Rudolf
Knox, Robert
Koch, Robert
Kresnik (reanimated corpse)
Kürten, Peter
L
La Barre, Weston
Lang, Fritz
Langsuir (vampire)
Larvae
Last rites
Lawson, John Cuthbert
Le Fanu, Sheridan
Le Rouge, Gustave
Lenore (Bürger)
Leprosy
Life span
Ligeia (Poe)
Lightning victims
Lilith, Queen of the Succubi
Linguistics
Linnaeus, Carolus
London, England: cemetery conditions; cholera outbreaks; in Dracula (Stoker); Great Plague; Highgate Cemetery
Longevity
Louis XVIII, King (France)
Lucian of Samosata
Lugosi, Béla
Lusia (psychic)
Lycanthropy
M
M (movie)
MacCulloch, John Arnott
Malaysia: demons
Malekula
Mam (spirits)
Manchester, Seán
Mandurugo (bloodsucker)
Map, Walter
Maria Theresa, Empress
Martin, Stella
Martinique, West Indies: zombies
Marx, Karl
Matheson, Richard
Mato Grosso, Brazil: burial practices
Maya
McClelland, Bruce
McNeill, William H.
Medvegia, Serbia
Mehmed II, Sultan (Ottoman Empire)
Melanesia: reanimation
Melrose Abbey, England
Menzies, Allan
“Metamorphosis of the Vampire” (Baudelaire)
Metcalf, Peter
Methodius (missionary)
Mexico: sacrifices
Mirabilia (Phlegon)
Mirrors, fear of
Mitford, Algernon B.
Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion (Lawson)
Modi, Sir Ervad Jivanji Jamshedji
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Moonbeams
More, Henry
Mothers: cannibalism of children; vulnerability of
Movies
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mulo (undead)
Mummies
Mungo Lady
Murder, vampire-inspired
Murnau, Friedrich
Mykonos (island), Greece
Mytilene (island), Greece
N
Nachzehrer (after-devourer)
Native Americans
New Caledonia, South Pacific Ocean: reanimation
New England: burials; vampire epidemics
Nicaragua: cannibalism
Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens)
Nicholls, Peter
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Night terrors
Nocturnal habits of vampires
Nodier, Charles
Nosferatu (movie)
Nosferatu (vampire): origin of term
Notre Dame, Paris, France
O
Obsequies
Odyssey (Homer)
Ojibwa Indians
Orang minyak (oily men)
Orthodox Church see Eastern Orthodoxy
Osiris (god)
Ossenfelder, Heinrich August
Ottoman Empire: battle with Vlad the Impaler; cemeteries; extent; independence from
Owls
P
Paganism: accusations against
Christians; deities; sacrifices; vampires
Pandemics
Paole, Arnold
Paris, France: fascination with death; plague
Parsees
Pasteur, Louis
Peat bogs
Pellagra
Penanggalen (supernatural predator)
Penny dreadful novels
Pentsch, Poland: in ghost stories
Pepys, Samuel
Persia: archaeology
Perun (god)
Philip V, King (France)
Philip VI, King (France)
Philippines: spirits
Phlegon
Pisachas (flesh-eaters)
Plagues: Black Death; burials; causes; forensic anthropology; quarantine stations; scapegoats; spread; symptoms
Planché, James
Plogojowitz, Peter
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poetic Views of the Slavs Toward Nature (Afanasiev)
Polidori, John
Polynesians
Pontianak (vampire)
Popular culture
Porphyria
Powell, Anthony
Pregnant women, vulnerability of
Premature burial
Pretas (deceased)
Price, Jesus Christ
Price, Vincent
Price, William
Le prisonnier de la planète Mars (Le Rouge)
Prophecies
Protovampires
Psychopathia Sexualis (von Krafft-Ebing)
Purgatory
Purge fluid
Q
Queen of the Damned (Rice)
R
Rabies
Rakshasas (destroyers)
Ray, Horace
Reanimation: Antantis Castle, England; benevolent revenants; Berwick, England; Buckingham, England; causes of; letter of absolution; Melrose Abbey, England; Mykonos (island), Greece; Newburgh Abbey, England; premature burial and; prevention; resurrection; Toradja people; undead; zombies
Redesdale, Baron
Reincarnation
Resurrectionists see Body snatchers
Revenants see Reanimation
Richard, Father François
Rigor mortis
Riva, James
Roanoke Island, North Carolina: shamans
Rohr, Philip
Roman Catholicism: last rites; purgatory; Rousseau and; transubstantiation; vampires and; Voltaire and
Romani see Gypsies
Romania: history; vampires; witches
Rome, ancient
Rosetti, Dinu
Rother, Adam
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rudiger, Joshua
Russia: religions; vampires
S
Saberhagen, Fred
Sacrifices
Salem, Massachusetts: witchcraft trials
Santorini (island), Greece
Saponification
Satan
Scapegoats
Scavengers
Scholomance
Scidmore, Eliza
Science fiction
Scientific reports of vampires
Scotland: body snatchers
Seabrook, William B.
Serbia: traditional culture; vampire epidemics; vampire folklore
Sewell, Brocard
Sexuality: blood drinking and; of succubi; of vampires
Shakespeare, William
Shamans; see also Witches and sorcerers
Shape-shifting: into bats; by dragons; into owls; b
y rakshasas; by werewolves
Shelley, Mary Godwin
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shreck, Max
“The Sick Rose” (Blake)
Sigismund, King (Bohemia)
Sima de los Huesos, Spain
Skhul Cave, Israel
Skin, postmortem changes in
Slavic peoples: conversion to Christianity; folklore; history; linguistics; paganism; shamans
Sledzik, Paul
Smallpox
Smith, Will
Smoke-drying of corpses
Snow, John
Sorcerers see Witches and sorcerers
South America: burial practices
Southey, Robert
St. Michan’s Church, Dublin, Ireland
Staking through heart
Stetson, George R.
Stiles, Robert
Stillborn infants
Stöder (traveler)
Stoker, Bram: career; childhood; death; literature familiar to; see also Dracula (Stoker)
Stoker, Florence
The Story of How the Pagans Honored Their Idols
Strieber, Whitley
Strix (mythic death-bird)
Stubbe, Peter
Styria, Austria: vampires
Succubi (female demons)
Sudan: live burial
Suicide
Sulawesi (island), Indonesia: fear of the dead
Sumatra (island), Indonesia: shamans
Sumerian demonology
Summers, Montague
Sunlight hypersensitivity
Swieten, Gerard van
T
Tales of Old Japan (Mitford)
Tapuya people
Taranis (god)
Taylor, Timothy
Television programs
Theater
Thomas, Lewis
Thompson, Reginald Campbell
Thompson, Stith
Thoreau, Henry David
Thracians
Tibet: exposure of corpses; shamans
Titian (artist)
Tongaranka people
Toporov, V.
Toradja people
Torres Strait Islanders
Totem and Taboo (Freud)
Towers of Silence
Tozer, Henry
Traité sur les Apparitions des Esprits, et sur les Vampires (Calmet)
Transylvania (region), Romania
Trelawny, Edward John
Trigg, Elwood B.
“True Blood” (HBO series)
Tuberculosis: cultural explanations for; epidemics; preventive measures; symptoms; vampire epidemics and
Twitchell, James
Tylor, Edward B.
Typhus
U
Ukraine: vampires
Undead see Reanimation
United States: body snatchers
Urnfield culture
V
Vaccaei people
The Vampire: His Kith and Kin (Summers)
Vampire bats
Vampire Chronicles (Rice)
Vampire epidemics: New England; Serbia
The Vampire in Europe (Summers)
Vampire slayers
Vampires: characteristics of; earliest known representation; etymology
Vampires (gang)
Vampires, Burials, and Death (Barber)
I Vampiri (Davanzati)
Vampiric condition see Corpses: vampiric state “The Vampyre” (Byron)
Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood
Veles, Macedonia
Venice, Italy: exhumation and study of plague victims; plague; public health measures
Vetalas (unsatisfied dead)
Victoria, Queen (United Kingdom)
Vienna, Austria: plague
Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry (Burton)
Vlad II Dracul
Vlad III Dracula see Vlad the Impaler
Vlad the Impaler: death and burial; exaggerations about; as model for Dracula; in Romanian history
Volos (god)
Voltaire
Von Krafft-Ebing, Richard
Voodoo
A Voyage into the Levant (de Tournefort)
Vrykolakas (undead)
Vultures
W
Walker, George Alfred
Walking dead see Reanimation
Wallachia (region), Romania
Walls, Denis
Walpole, Horace
Walton Cemetery, Connecticut
Wandering dead see Reanimation
Warg (wolf)
Wellington, Duke of
Wells, James W.
Wends
Werewolves
Wilkinson, William
William of Newburgh
Willoughby-Meade, Gerald
Witches and sorcerers: causing diseases; characteristics of; in Christianity; demonic possession of; European hysteria; execution of; familiars; in Native American mythology; in paganism; in the Philippines; reanimating the dead; reanimation of; relationship to vampires; in Salem, Massachusetts; shamans and; in Slavic cultures; see also Shamans
Wizards see Witches and sorcerers
Wojdyla, Elizabeth
Women, vulnerability of
Wordsworth, William
Worms
Wroclaw, Poland see Breslau (Wroclaw), Poland
Wuthering Heights (Brontë)
Y
Yanomamo Indians
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn
Yearsley, MacLeod
Yeats, William Butler
Young, Almira
Young, Levi
Young, Nancy
Z
Zapotec Indians
Zombies