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The “Vampire Bat” [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1883
DR. ROMANES, in criticising a book (“Zoological Sketches”), in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 333, says: “The writer speaks of vampire bats as those which suck the blood of sleeping persons, whereas the truth is, as Belt has remarked, ‘the vampire is the most harmless of bats.’”
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Vampires, Revenant Souls, and Objects of Healing

open access: yesHistorical Studies on Central Europe, 2023
This study searches for the characteristic features of religious healing in three phenomena of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: veneration of miraculous images, apparitions from Purgatory, and vampire incidences. All the examples originate from
Tomáš Malý, Monika Enenklová
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The Vampires Our Age Deserves: 21st Century Forms of Ancient Evil [PDF]

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2018
Traditionally, the peoples of Southeast Asia have held beliefs in numerous forms of vampires often crossed with ghosts or other spirits, such as Pontianak of the Malay Peninsula, Phi Krasue and Phi Pop of Thailand and the Aswang and Manananggal of the ...
Michael James Joyce
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The vampire and the FOOL [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 5th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs, 2016
This paper presents new features recently implemented in the theorem prover Vampire, namely support for first-order logic with a first class boolean sort (FOOL) and polymorphic arrays. In addition to having a first class boolean sort, FOOL also contains if-then-else and let-in expressions.
Evgenii Kotelnikov   +3 more
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Abjection of the Other in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend: The Subject’s Deterrence Strategy for Becoming the Abject

open access: yesText Matters, 2023
Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954) is about the volatile relationship between Robert Neville—the sole survivor of the human race—and vampires as the members of a brave new world order.
Hossein Mohseni
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Obraz wampira w traktacie Augustina Calmeta i innych tekstach francuskich przełomu XVII i XVIII wieku

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Litteraria Romanica, 2022
Although they made their spectacular literary appearance with the arrival of Romanticism, vampires were arousing a vivid interest well before the 19th century.
Łukasz Szkopiński
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The Corporeality of the Domestic Vampire in the Context of Soviet Nostalgia

open access: yesCorpus Mundi, 2023
The article deals with the analysis of the corporeality of Russian vampires, naturalized in the domestic serial cinema at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century. The vampire was a marginal character in the Russian cultural tradition of the
Sophia V. Tikhonova
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Modernity as Crisis: Goeng Si and Vampires in Hong Kong Cinema (translation into Russian)

open access: yesCorpus Mundi, 2021
This article is a translation of a chapter from the collective monograph Draculas, vampires, and other undead forms: essays on gender, race, and culture, edited by John Edgar Browning and Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart (2009, Scarecrow Press).
Dale Hudson
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Exploring Other-Than-Human Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires

open access: yesQualitative Sociology Review, 2020
Drawing on in-depth, narrative interviews with 24 self-identified Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires, we explore how members of these communities navigate Bamberg’s three “dilemmatic spaces” or tensions of continuity/change, similarity/difference ...
Clive Baldwin, Lauren Ripley
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