Vampire. Corpse which comes from grave at night and sucks blood. (Cf. B16.7.1, E268.)
The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Bloodthirsty revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E251
Motif
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Scholars’ trail — 26references
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "vampirisme"
- LithuanianBalys Index No. 3543
- GreekFox 278 (Stringes)
- SlavicMáchal 231f.
- AssyrianSpence 265
- India*Thompson-Balys
- IndonesianDixon 231f.
- West IndiesFlowers 429
- N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 357 n. 287e
- S. Am. Indian (Araucanian)Alexander Lat. Am. 329.
- general *Types 307, 363
- general *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 322 (327 bibliography of literary treatments)
- general *v. Negelein ibid. XIV 19
- general *Jaworskij ibid. VIII 331
- general *Hock Die Vampyrsagen und ihre Verwertung in der deutschen Literatur (Berlin, 1900)
- general *Penzer VI 136, X 346 s. v. "vampires", 350 s. v. "Vetala"
- general *Fb "blod" IV 47a, "vampyr" IV 361b
- general *Kittredge Witchcraft 43, 397 n. 160
- general *Havecost Die Vampirsage in England (1914)
- general Stetson The Animistic Vampire in New England (AA o.s. IX [1896] 1ff.)
- general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s. v. "Vampire"
- general Summers **The Vampire in Europe (London, 1929), **The Vampire, its Kith and Kin (London, 1928)
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- The Princess in the Coffin (previously The Princess in the Shroud) · ATU 3072 recorded variants