by Bob Curran
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Index
A
Aaron, 44
Abbot of Newburgh, 70-71
Abraham, 38
Adventures in Arabia, 148
African Diaspora, 122-123
Afterlife, 19-63, 166-167, 175, 203
Ahab, 38
Alcher of Clairviaux, 75
Algol, 194
Ancestor worship, 166-167
Anunnaki, the, 28
Armstrong, Dr. P.M., 103
Arthur, 54, 60, 61-62
Asylum, 149
B
Ba’al, 31-34
Babalou, 136
“Baby Doc,” 133
Baptism, 71
Bard, John, 99
Barre, Guillaume, 124
Bataille, Georges, 151
Bedouins, 197
Belgrave, William, 197
Bell, Sir Charles, 84
Bishop Baudry, 72
Black Constable, the, 140-142
Black stone, 186
Blackbears, 129
Bodysnatchers, 84, 204
Bokors, 122
Bondye, 126
Book of the Preachers of Ely, The, 71
Boukman, Dutty, 131
Bran, 56-57
Branwen, 56-57
Breauz, Dicky, 140
Brigitt, Maman, 135
Brooks, Sir John, 84
Brown, Janet, 90, 96
Burke, William, 89-97, 103
Burton, Richard, 197
C
Cadwalader, Thomas, 99
Calvaros, 169
Cambrensis, Geraldus, 54
Cannibalism, 117, 133, 147
Carnavon, Lord, 111
Carnbronne, Luckner, 132-133
Carter, Howard, 109-111
Catalepsy, 78, 81-82
Cauldron of Life, the, 59
Cauldron of Rebirth, the, 55, 58, 63
Cauldrons, 55-58
Celtic mythology, 49-53
Celts, 54-58, 163-165
Chapman, Israel, 84, 85, 100
Chinese Ghost Festival, 172
Cholas, the, 30
Chronicon, 71
Cimetière, Baron, 134-146
Clossey, Dr. Samuel, 87
Colborn, Ephriam, 100
Confucius, 172
Connor, Grace, 16
Corpse’s Daughter, the, 14-15
Corpus, 73-75
Court writing, 75
Cramer, John, 87-89
“Crazy Cow,” 85-86
Crossroads, 165-166
Crouch, Ben, 83-84, 85, 86, 100
Crowley, Aleister, 147
Cruncher, Jerry, 103
Culte des Mortes, 148-149
Cunnington, B.H., 163
Curse of the Pharaohs, 109, 112
Cut Bread Jack, 140
D
Daft Jamie, 93-94, 96
Damballa 126, 130
Damballah, Wedo, 146
Daoism, 177
Daumuzid, 30
Davis, Wade, 158, 159
Day of Deliverance, 176
Day of the Dead, 168-169, 173
Day of the Little Angels, 168-169
De Nugis Curialium, 76
Dead festivals, 168-181
Dead houses, 65-66
Debtors, 191
Deliverance Festival, 172
Der Lange Verborgene Freunde, 99
Dessalines, Jean-Jacque, 131
Dippel, Johann Konrad, 26-27
Dixon, Margaret, 104-106
Docherty, Mary, 94-96
Domingo, John, 140-142
Dou, Gerrit, 189-190
Dr. Buzzard, 144-145
Dr. John, 138
Draugr, 66-68, 78, 172, 203
Drugging, 156
Duvalier, Francois
“Papa Doc,” 132-133, 136
Duvalier, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc,” 133
E
Ea, 28-29
Efnisen, 56-57
Egyptian hangings, 108-111
Egyptology, 108, 111
Elijah, 38-39
Endor, Witch of, 34
Enka, 28-29
Enoch, 39-43
Erzulie Freda, 126-127
Eurydice, 20-23
Eyrbyggja Saga, 67
Ezekiel, 29, 43-44
Ezili Dantor, 130-131
F
Fairies, 76
Fanu, Joseph Sheriden le, 189-190
Fifty Years as a Low Country Witch Doctor, 145
First Great Awakening, the, 106
Fisher king, 60-62
Frankenstein, 25-27
Freda, Erzulie, 126-127
Fugara, 193, 197-198
G
Geb, 24-25
Gehenna 33-34
General Topography of Ireland, 54
Gervaise of Tilbury, 75, 76
Gettir, 68
Gettirs Saga, 68
Ghede, 130, 146
Ghost Month, 172-173
Ghost Priests, 194
Ghosts, 73-75
Giltine, 170-171
Glapion, Christophe, 137
Gold, George Jay, 111
Golden Legend, 46
Goodness, Joe, 139-140
Goofer dust, 99, 145
Goomer charms, 101
Grainne, 190
Grave robbing, American, 98
Gray, Ann, 94-96
Gray, James, 94-96
Great Wheel of the Years, 50-51
Guinee, 127, 130, 146
Gullah Jack, 143
Guul, 193-194
H
Hades, 21, 23
Haiti, slavery and, 125
Haiti, voodoo and, 118, 151
Half-hanged, 104-106
Halloween, 12, 13, 77, 171, 189
Harding, Joshua, 105
Hare, Margaret, 89-97
Hare, William, 89-97, 103
Harnett, Bill, 83
Harnett, Jack, 83
Hearn, Lafcadio, 138
Hebrew legend, 33
Hendrick, George “Crazy Cow,” 85-86
Henry VIII, 82
Historia Rerum Anglicarum, 69, 76
Hohnman, John George, 99
Holy Grail, the, 58-63
Hoodoo, 117
Horus, 25
Hospitals, 82-83
Houngans, 122, 131
Howard, Robert E., 151
Hugh of St. Victor, 73
Human sacrifice, 117
Hunter, John, 99
I
Indians, 99
Isis, 24-25
J
Jesus, 58, 60
Jevons, Frank, 167
Jezebel, 38
Jogaila, 171
Joseph of Arimathea, 59-60
K
Karma, 175
King Saul, 34-37
Knight, Jonathan, 100
Knox, Mary-Anne, 105-106
Knox, Robert, 90-97, 103
Kodukaija, 172
Kraimer, Noah, 30
Kur, 28, 30, 33
L
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 132
Laguerre, Michael S., 132
Last Supper, the, 58, 60
Laveau, Marie, 137, 138
Laxdoela Saga, 68
LeBrique, Zozo, 139
Lemba, 121-122
Light, Tom, 83
Living mummies, 178-181
Loa, 126-127, 137, 146
M
Mabinogion, 56, 60, 62
MacDougall, Helen, 89-97
Macoute, the, 132
Magic Island, The, 148
Magyar tales, 186-187
Mahamudgalyayana, 175-176
Maimonides, Moses, 48-49
Malory, Thomas, 61-62
Mama Wata, 118
Mambos, 122
Map, Walter, 75-76
Marbh bheo, 166
Mason, Mary, 85
Matholwch, 56-57
McErc, Fergus, 52,54
McNaughten, John, 105-106
McTeer, J.E., 144-145
Medieval beliefs, 77-78
Melqart, 31
Metraux, Alfred, 151
Mictecacihauti, 168
Middle Ages, 49
Middleton, Peter, 99
Moloch, 33-34
Monk of Byland, 69
Montenant, John, 138
Moroi, 181-183, 17
Morte d’Arthur, 61-62
Moses, 44
Mummies, living, 178-181
Mummification, 24
Mummy movies, 112
Munster, Jack, 87-89
Muqarribun, 194-196, 197
N
Napier, Joseph, 83
Narcisse, Clairvius, 156-157, 158
New Orleans, voodoo and, 118
Nut, 24-25
Nzambi Mpungu, 121
Nzambi, 148-149
Nzinga Nkuwu, 122
O
Obeah, 145-146
Odhrain, 199-201
Ohio, 101
Old Cunny, 101
Orpheus, 20-23
Osborn, Ersastus, 100
Osiris, 24-25, 32, 108
Our Lady of the Bones, 169, 170
P
“Papa Doc,” 132-133
Papa Legba, 127, 134
Partholon, 52, 57
Pasada, Jose Guadalupe, 169
Paterson, Mary, 90-91, 92, 96
Paysandu, Delphine, 143
Pedro, Don, 129
Persphone, 23
Petits blancs, 131
Petra, 129-132
Pharaohs, 23-25
Phoenicians, 31
Plantations, 125, 130, 131, 133, 149
“Pleasures of Body Snatching, The,” 103
Ponce de Leon, Juan, 52
Poudre, 156-157
Preta, 175
Pritchard, Gullah Jack, 143
Purcell, Francis, 189
Pyramid Texts, 24-25
R
Rada, 129-132
Rebennac, Malcolm, 138
Resurrection powder, 156-157
Resurrection, 19, 50
Resurrection, Jesus’, 48
Resurrectionists, 82-97, 107
Revenants, 76
Revolutionary War, 100
River Lethe, 20
River Styx, 20
Romero, George A., 11, 151-154
Rudd, Robert, 98-99
S
Sack-’em-ups, 83
Salem witch trials, 106
Salvation, 203
Samedi, Baron, 134
Samuel, 37
Sanguisuga, 69
Santa Muerte, 168
Sato Eimei, 180
Saul, 34-37
Schalken, Gottfrid, 189-190
Seabrook, William, 147-150
Senn, Harry, 16, 185
Serpent and the Rainbow, The, 158
Set, 24-25
Shakyamuni, 175
Shelley, Mary, 25-26
Shippen, Jr., William, 99-100
Simpson, Abigail, 90
Skelds, 67
Slaves, 117, 118-119, 122, 125, 129, 131, 133, 142-143, 149
South Carolina, slavery and, 143-143
South Carolina, voodoo and, 118
Southey, Robert, 103
Spencer, Herbert, 167
Spiritus, 73-75, 162
St. Columcille, 199
St. George’s Eve, 183, 184
Strigoi mort, 185-187
Strigoi, 17, 181-187
Sugar skulls, 169
“Surgeon’s Warning, The,” 103
Surgeons, 82-97
T
Talmud, 40
Tammuz, 27-30, 31
Tankerlay, James, 69-70
Taunton, John, 84
Teach, Edward, 129
Terrible but Wonderful Revelation of the Crimes of the Resurrectionists Burke and Hare and Many Others, The, 97
Tet Trung Nguyen, 173
Tetsumonkai, 180
Theitmar, 71-72
Thorolf Halt-Foot, 67-68
Torrance, Helen, 89
Troyes, Chrétien de, 62
Tutankhamen, 109-111
Tyler, Edward B., 167
U
Ugartic legend, 32
Ullambana, 172, 173, 176
Underworld, 20, 24, 27, 28, 108, 127
V
Vampire and Werewolf in Romania, 185
Vanderhousen, Wilken, 189-190
Vassey, Denmark, 142-143
Victorian era, 16
Vikings, 66, 69-70
Virgil, 20
Voodoo, 117-159
Voodoo doctors, 143-145
Voodoo in Haiti, 151
Voodoo practitioners, 136-143
Voodoo priests, 119
W
Waldie, Jean, 89
Walsh, Thady, 190
Water, 51-52
Waters of Oblivion, 52, 57
Webster, Mary, 106
Werewolf and Vampire in Eastern Europe, The, 16-17
Wheel of the Year, 50-51
Whitefield, George, 107
Whitney, Constance, 79-87, 97
Wicks, Ernest, 81
William of Malmesbury, 75
William of Newburgh, 69, 76
Wilson, James, 93-94, 96
Witch of Endor, 34
Witch trials, Salem, 106
Witchcraft, 98, 101
Wolkstein, Diane, 30
Wonderful Discoverie of Doubtful Magicks in the Village of Ipswich or The Heathen’s Purpose Discover’d, A, 98
Worthington, Marjorie Ward, 150
Y
Yue Laan, 173
Z
Zombie culture, 150-155
Zombie law, 155-157
Zombie movies/books, 150-151
Zombie poisons, 157
Zom
bies, 115-159
Zuvembie, 151
Zwelzda Polnoca, 188
Zwyie, 188
About the Author
Dr. Bob Curran was born in a remote area of County Down, Northern Ireland. The area in which he grew up was rich in folklore—especially the folklore of the supernatural—and this gave him an ear for and an interest in the tales and beliefs of many people. He has worked in a number of jobs before going to University, where he took a doctorate in child psychology. Even so, his interest in folklore and folk culture was still very much to the fore, and this prompted him to write a number of books on the subject, including Celtic Lord and Legend; Vampires; and Lost Lands, Forgotten Realms. Having taken another degree in history, he now lectures and broadcasts on matters of historical interest, and acts as advisor to a number of influential cultural bodies in Northern Ireland. Most recently he has been working on advisory bodies regarding cultural links between Northern Ireland and the West of Scotland. He currently lives in Northern Ireland with his wife and young family.
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