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The Secret History of Vampires : Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes by Claude Lecouteux is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Secret History of Vampires : Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes about?
A look at the forgotten ancestors of the modern-day vampire, many of which have very different characteristics • Looks at the many ancestoral forms of the modern vampire, including shroud eaters, appesarts, and stafi • Presents evidence for the reality of this phenomenon from pre-19th-century newspaper articles and judicial records Of all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most powerful pull on the modern imagination. But the countless movies and books inspired by this child of the night who has a predilection for human blood are based on incidents recorded as fact in newspapers and judicial archives in the centuries preceding the works of Bram Stoker and other writers. Digging through these forgotten records, Claude Lecouteux unearths a very different figure of the vampire in the many accounts of individuals who reportedly would return from their graves to attack the living. These ancestors of the modern vampire were not all blood suckers; they included shroud eaters, appesarts, nightmares, and the curious figure of the stafia, whose origin is a result of masons secretly interring the shadow of a living human being in the wall of a building under construction. As Le
Who reads The Secret History of Vampires : Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Claude Lecouteux
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781594776847
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Science, Body Mind & Spirit, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.78 / 5 (69 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14