Vampire by Any Other Name: Vampires, Werewolves and Witches of the Slavs, Balkan Peoples and Other Lands: A Linguistic and Cultural Adventure

Husic, Geoff

dc.contributor.author	Husic, Geoff
dc.date.accessioned	2010-05-18T16:29:23Z
dc.date.available	2010-05-18T16:29:23Z
dc.date.issued	2010-05-18T16:29:23Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6213
dc.description	The suave, pale, bloodsucking vampire that is most familiar to us first burst onto the scene in the works of 19th century Western authors such John Polidori’s Vampyre (1819) or in the much better known Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. The folkloric vampire of the peoples of Eastern Europe differ quite a bit from this popular literary depiction. The Balkan and Carpathian beings featured in this exhibit form a complex of basically three major ghouls. These beings are common to the Slavs, and the non-Slavic Albanians, Romanians, Greeks, and Romanies (i.e. Gypsies). In some cases the names of these ghouls are synonymous, and in other cases there are fine distinctions between them or overlap in their characteristics.
dc.description.abstract	Catalog of exhibit held in Watson Library, University of Kansas, May-June 2010.
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.subject	Vampires
dc.subject	Werewolves
dc.subject	Witches
dc.subject	Balkans
dc.subject	Slavic languages etymology
dc.subject	Book exhibit
dc.title	Vampire by Any Other Name: Vampires, Werewolves and Witches of the Slavs, Balkan Peoples and Other Lands: A Linguistic and Cultural Adventure
dc.type	Article
kusw.kuauthor	Husic, Geoff
kusw.kudepartment	University of Kansas Libraries, Slavic Dept.
kusw.oastatus	na
dc.identifier.orcid	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0617-7160
kusw.oapolicy	This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess

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