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Vampires in Myth and History

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Vampire myths go back thousands of years and occur in almost every culture around the world. Their variety is almost endless; from red eyed ...

The Lexicon of the Werewolf

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Order I: What is the word lycan mean? Order II: What is otherkin? Order III: What does a lycan entail? Order IV: What are To...

Therianthropy

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A belief of werewolves has been in every culture since the earliest reported history. A lot of falsehoods have come about through the years ...

Werewolves: Legends, Cases, Theories

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The wereanimal belief or legend is universal. In the European and American cultures, the predominant theme is that the werecreature is a wol...

Werewolf and Vampire!

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FRIGHTENING! If you haven’t been clawed, drained, ripped, bitten or sucked yet, don’t go off guard. I interviewed vampire buffs, visited g...

Werewolves

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I'm a sucker for werewolves. Probably the result of seeing An American Werewolf in London when I was nine, as well as the usual assortme...

The Legend of the Werewolf

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Are they myth, magic or a medical condition? Werewolves, beings that looked human and could turn themselves into wolves when ever they w...

Werewolves - A Medical Perspective

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The werewolf has played an important part in universal folklore since pre-Christian times. A werewolf is classically defined as "a pers...

Porphyria and Lycanthropy

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The disease porphyria may have led to accusations of lycanthropy or vampirism.

Rabies and Lycanthropy

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A rabid canine, according to clinical observations, becomes "increasingly irritable, restless, and nervous.... It shows exaggerated res...

Essence of a Vampyre

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First, I think it best to define the essence of the vampire (fictional) before attempting to define the Essence of the Vampyre (magical). In...

The Compulsion of Real/Reel Serial Killers and Vampires: Toward a Gothic Criminology

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ABSTRACT The most gripping and recurrent visualizations of the "monstrous" in the media and film lay bare the tensions that unde...

Vampires in Myth and History

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Vampire myths go back thousands of years and occur in almost every culture around the world. Their variety is almost endless; from red eyed ...

Deconstructing the Myths of Vampire Folklore and Examining the Truths of Modern Day Vampires

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Why do we, as humans, have a long standing fascination with vampires? Is it our own morbid love affair with death? Or perhaps the twisted ps...

Creatures of the Night

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There is no known culture on this planet that has not at one time or another cowered in fear because of the savage attacks of a nocturnal pr...

The Werewolf Syndrome: Compulsive Bestial Slaughterers

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Attack In 1995, a young woman in Douglas County, Washington, was unable to get her mother or fourteen-year-old sister, Amanda, to answer t...

The Book of Were-Wolves

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Synopsis: Sabine Baring-Gould was a parson in the Church of England, an archaeologist, historian and a prolific author. He is best known fo...

Montague Summers’ Guide to Vampires

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INTRODUCTION Anyone curious about the legendary background of vampires is soon bound to stumble across Montague Summers, whose writings in...

The Werewolf of Paris

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INTRODUCTION Where shall I begin my tale? This one has neither beginning nor end, but only a perpetual unfolding, a multi-petaled blosso...