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Forever young, Though Forever Changing: Evolution of the Vampire [PDF]

, 2016
The enduring influence of the vampire myth on many young people today reveals the relevance of one of the nineteenth century’s most powerful surviving archetypes.
Lima, Maria Antónia
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Greek love, orientalism and race : intersections in Classical reception [PDF]

, 2012
Classics has been characterised as both a radical and a conservative discipline. Classical reception studies has enjoyed exploring this paradox: antiquity has provided an erotic example for modern homosexual counter-culture as well as a model for running
Orrells, Daniel
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Shamans and “Dark Agencies”: War, Magical Parasitism, and Re-Enchanted Spirits in Siberia

Religions
Alleged practices of magical assault and vampirism are a recurrent feature of popular explanations of misfortune in Tuva, South Siberia. Based on a field study of healing practices in an “Association of Shamans”, this article analyses rituals of ...
Konstantinos Zorbas
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The magical power of blood

Ehquidad, 2020
We all have heard about vampires. Many cultures have developed myths and legends about vampires with different features. These tales have several common elements, as the dualism between life and death.
Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez
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Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies in Bram Stoker’s \u3cem\u3eDracula\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eThe Lair of the White Worm\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2006
Scientific ideologies swirl throughout Stoker’s two most gothic novels, Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911), and this essay will address those ideologies as literary manifestations of just some of the “weird science” that was permeating ...
Hoeveler, Diane
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European court of human rights: case of Akdaş v. Turkey [PDF]

, 2010
Concise analysis of judgment ECtHR in the case of Akdas v ...
Voorhoof, Dirk
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Dead Collections

Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research
Isaac Fellman’s Dead Collections: A Novel (2022) portrays a fictional archivist Sol, who experiences chronic illness in the form of vampirism. While he experiences many symptoms including cold skin and reliance on weekly blood transfusions, it is his ...
Mary Snyder Broussard
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The Monsters Within: Gothic Monstrosity in Dracula, Frankenstein, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its Role in Nineteenth Century English Society [PDF]

, 2016
Since ancient times, monsters have populated the human mind and, along with us, they have evolved throughout the centuries. This evolution was finally delineated in the nineteenth-century, when monsters were finally given ...
Ortiz Trueba, Rubén
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The Cowl - v.38 - n.9 - Oct 27, 1983 [PDF]

, 1983
The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 38 - No. 9 - October 27, 1983.

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The idea on vampire as a warning to the alive [PDF]

Baština, 2010
The theme of the author's paper is the phenomenon of vampires, which was written down either with Serbs or with the whole population in the area of former Yugoslavia.
Pavlović Aleksandar
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