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Vampire Forensics

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by Mark Collins Jenkins


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  INDEX

  A

  Abenaki people

  Aborigines: cannibalism; cremation; malevolent spirits; treatment of corpses

  Absolution

  Achomawi Indians

  Adipocere

  Aegira, Achaia, Greece

  Afanasiev, Alexander

  Aghia, Greece

  Agron, Salvatore

  Alastors (avengers)

  Algul (demon)

  Aliens, vampires as

  Alvise Mocenigo I, Doge (Venice)

  Anantis Castle, England

  Anghiera, Pietro Martyre

  Angola: zombies

  Animal sacrifices see Sacrifices

  Arabia: demons

  Archaeology: cannibalism evidence; oldest ritual burials; purpose of burials; study of plague victims

  Argens, Marquis d’

  Argos, Greece: sacrifices

  Armenia: Bogomils

  Arnhem Land, Australia

  Assyrian cylinder seal

  Aswangs (supernatural creatures)

  Atapuerca Mountains, Spain

  Australia: cannibalism; cremation; malevolent spirits; treatment of corpses

  Austria: control of Serbia; quarantine stations

  B

  Bajang (spirit)

  Balkans: funeral traditions; primeval forests; shamans; Slavonic liturgy; traditional culture; vampire folklore; werewolves

  Banks Island, South Pacific Ocean: shamans

  Barber, Paul: on body decay and vampire characteristics; corpse sounds; definition of vampire

  Baring-Gould, Sabine

  Batak people

  Báthory, Elizabeth

  Bats: demons as; symbolism; vampire bats; vampires as

  Baudelaire, Charlesr />
  Beheading see Decapitation

  Bell, Michael

  Bellantoni, Nick

  Benares, India

  Benedetti, Rocco

  Benedict XIV, Pope

  Bérard, Cyprien

  Berwick, England: reanimation

  Bhutas (spirits)

  Bioluminescence

  Black Death see Plagues

  Blaise, St.

  Blake, William

  Bleak House (Dickens)

  Blood: bathing in; as life force

  Blood drinking: cannibalism and; clinical vampirism; by the dead; by demons; by fictional vampires; by porphyria patients; for prophesying; sexual excitement and; for strength

  Blood sacrifices see Sacrifices

  Body snatchers

  Bogomils

  Boris I, Khan (Bulgaria)

  Bororo people

  Borrini, Matteo

  Botocudo people

  Brazil: blood drinking; burial practices; cannibalism; zombies

  Breslau (Wroclaw), Poland: ghost stories

  Bricks: in mouths of corpses

  Brontë, Charlotte

  Brontë, Emily

  Brown, Edwin

  Brown, George

  Brown, Mary Eliza

  Brown, Mary Olive

  Brown, Mercy

  Browne, Edward

  Browne, Sir Thomas

  Browning, Tod

  Bubonic plague see Plagues

  Buckingham, England: reanimation

  Buddhism

  Budge, Sir Wallis

  Bürger, Gottfried

  Burial practices: in ancient cultures; arising from fear of the dead; bricks in mouths of corpses; in China; communal graves; decapitation; in Japan; live burial; in Melanesia; overcrowding; for plague victims; premature burial; prone position; as punishment; soil fertility and; in South America; vertical position; see also Cemeteries; Funerary rites

  Burke, William

  Burking

  Burma: shamans

  Burning see Corpses, desecration of; Cremation

  Burton, Abbot of

  Burton, Sir Richard Francis

  Byron, Lord

  C

  Cadavers see Corpses

  Callatian people

  Calmet, Dom Augustin

  Canada: body snatchers

  Cannibalism

  Carmilla (Le Fanu)

  Carniola (Slovenia)

  Carpathian Mountains, Europe

  Çatal Hüyük, Turkey

  Catalepsies

  Cats, as vampires

  Caucasus Mountains, Asia-Europe: exposure of corpses; lightning victims

  Cemeteries: causing disease; graveyard effluvium; hauntings; overcrowding; sounds from; St. Michan’s Church, Dublin, Ireland; Walton Cemetery, Griswold, Connecticut; working conditions; see also

  Burial practices

  Cernunnos (god)

  Charlemagne

  Charles I, King (Great Britain)

  Charles VI, Emperor (Roman Empire)

  Chase, Richard Trenton

  Cherokee Indians

  Children: cannibalism by their mothers; vulnerability

  Chimpanzees

  China: burial practices; double soul concept; pretas; vampires

  Ch’ing shih (Chinese vampire)

  Cholera

  Chopin, Frédéric-François

  Christianity: accusations against pagans; demonization of revenants; funeral and burial rites; last rites; threats from dualistic movements; vision of spiritual universe; see also Eastern Orthodoxy; Roman Catholicism

  Claremont, Claire

  Clement of Alexandria

  Clement VI, Pope

  Clinical vampirism

  Clovis, King (France)

  Coffins, blood-filled

  Comas

  Comic books

  Consumption see Tuberculosis

  Corpses: bioluminescence; bloating; blood at the mouth; bricks in mouths; buoyancy; decomposition; demonic possession; differentiated from ghosts; disposal methods; excarnation; medical dissections; postmortem changes; purge fluid; smoke-drying; sounds from; vampiric state; see also Cremation; Exhumations; Reanimation

  Corpses, desecration of: burning; decapitation; dismemberment; punishment for; reasons for; removal of heart

  Cremation: in Britain; difficulty of; in Greece; in prehistory; religious prohibitions; of witches

  Crime, vampire-inspired

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Cyril (missionary)

  D

  Danang (demon)

  D’Arch Smith, Timothy

  Darius, King (Persia)

  Davanzati, Giuseppe

  David Copperfield (Dickens)

  David-Neel, Alexandra

  De Masticatione Mortuorum (Rohr)

  De Tournefort, Joseph Pitton

  Deane, Hamilton

  Death: in art; battle for soul; fascination with; fear of; realm of; see also Corpses

  Decapitation: in ancient Persia; of corpses; of criminals; display of severed heads; in England

  Defoe, Daniel

  Demonic possession: Bogomil beliefs; causing vampirism; of excommunicates; Shaman’s battles against; signs of; vulnerable populations; of witches

  Devil

  DiCataldo, Frank

  Dickens, Charles

  Dictionnaire philosophique (Voltaire)

  Dinka people

  Disease: causing vampirism; from cemeteries; see also Cholera; Epidemics; Rabies; Tuberculosis

  Disenchantment by decapitation

  Dolní Vestonice, Czech Republic: burials

  Dolphin, David

  Dorman, Rushton M.

  Doyle, Arthur Conan

  Dracula (movie)

  Dracula (Stoker): Abraham Van Helsing; awards; corpse light; Dracula; Dracula’s death ; Dracula’s name; inspiration for; Jonathan Harker; Lucy Westenra; Mina Harker; movie adaptations; nosferatu in; overview of story; praise for; promotion of; setting for; stage adaptations; vampire slayers

  Dracula, Count: actors portraying; clothing; fangs; in popular culture; postmortem bloating; shape-shifting; see also

  Vlad the Impaler

  The Dracula Tape (Saberhagen)

  Dragons

  Dualist religions

  Durham, Edith

  Düsseldorf, Germany: serial murders

  E

  East Prussia: vampire remedy

  Eastern Orthodoxy

  Egypt: funerary practices; vampire origins

  Electricity and reanimation

  Elijah the Thunderer (god)

  Endo-cannibalism

  Engels, Friedrich

  England: body snatchers; burial practices; cholera outbreak; corpse desecration; executions; hill fort burials

  Epidemics

  Eretiks

  Eskimo shamans

  Estrie (demon)

  Ethiopia: prehistoric cannibalism

  Evans, W. E. D.

  Excarnation

  Excommunication

  Exeter, Rhode Island: tuberculosis outbreak

  Exhumations: archaeological; Eastern Orthodox; see also Corpses, desecration of

  Exo-cannibalism

  Exposure of corpses

  F

  “The Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe)

  Fangs

  Fermor, Patrick Leigh

  Ferrell, Roderick

  Flückinger, Johannes

  Flying foxes

  Forensic anthropology

  Foster, Rhode Island: tuberculosis outbreak

  Fournier, Jacques

  France: werewolves

  Frankenstein (Shelley)

  Frazer, Sir James

  Frederick II, King (Prussia)

  Freud, Sigmund

  Frost, Thomas

  Funerary rites: in ancient Egypt; burial practices; cannibalism; of gypsies; incorporating the dead; in India; Islamic; neglect of; purpose of

  Funerary urns

  G

  Galvanism

  Ganges River,
India-Bangladesh

  Garlic

  Gatherings from Grave Yards (Walker)

  Genetic disorders

  George, St.

  George II, King (England)

  Gerard, Emily

  Germany: folklore; werewolves

  Gettysburg, Battle of (1863)

  Ghost ships

  Ghost stories

  Gladstone, William

  Godwin, Mary see Shelley, Mary Godwin

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  The Golden Bough (Frazer)

  Gomez-Alonso, Juan

  Grave robbing see Body snatchers

  Graves see Burial practices; Cemeteries

  Graves, Alfred Perceval

  Greece: cremation; sacrifices; Strix; vrykolakas

  Grimaldi, Constantino

  Griswold, Connecticut

  Grunau, Simon

  Gundestrup Cauldron

  Gunwinggu people

  Gypsies

  H

  Haarmann, Fritz

  Haigh, John

  Haiti: zombies

  Halford, Sir Henry

  Hamlet (Shakespeare)

  Hampl, Jeffery

  Hampl, William

  Hanging executions

  Hanielus, Ignatius

  Hanover, Germany: serial murders

  Hapsburgs

  Hare, William

  Harriot, Thomas

  Harrison, John Scott

  Harrison, Thomas

  Hearn, Lafcadio

  Hebrew folklore

  Hell: hierarchy

  Helmold (priest)

  Henry VIII, King (England)

  Heretics

  Herodotus

  Heston, Charlton

  Highgate Cemetery, London, England

  Hinduism

  History of Brazil (Southey)

  Hoffman, Kuno

  Hogg, James

  Honduras: cannibalism

  Hooke, Samuel

  Hotel Transylvania (Yarbro)

  Human sacrifice

  Hungary: traditional culture; vampire epidemics

  The Hunger (Strieber)

  Huntington, Richard

  I

  I Am Legend (Matheson)

  Immortality

  Impalement; see also Vlad the Impaler

  Inca

  Incubus (demon)

  India: aboriginal inhabitants; exposure platforms; funerary rites; vampires

  Indian mounds

  Indo-Europeans: deities; history; nature myths

  Indra (thunder god)

  Infants, vulnerability of

  Innocent VIII, Pope

  Islam

  Italy: vampires; witches

 

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