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Vampires—Encyclopedias. I. Title.  \nGR830 .V3B34 2010 398.21'003—dc22 2010015576  \nBritish Library cataloguing data are available ©2010 Theresa Bane. All rights reserved  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nCover illustration by Joseph Maclise, from his Surgical Anatomy, 1859 Manufactured in the United States of America  \nMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 6¡¡, Je›erson, North Carolina 28640 [www.mcfarlandpub.com](www.mcfarlandpub.com)  \nTo my father,  \nAmedeo C. Falcone,  \nNoli nothi permittere te terere.  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nTable of Contents  \nPreface 1  \nIntroduction 7 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA 13  \nBibliography 155  \nIndex 183  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nPreface  \nI am a vampirologist—a mythologist who specializes in cross-cultural vampire studies. There are many people who claim to be experts on vampire lore and legend who will say that they know all about Vlad Tepes and Count Dracula or that they can name several different types of vampiric species. I can do that, too, but that is not how I came to be a known vampirologist. Knowing the “who, what and where” is one thing, but knowing and more importantly understanding the “why” is another.  \nThroughout history, every culture of man has had an incarnation of the vampire, a being responsible for causing plagues and death. A hobbyist or enthusiast may know that the hili is a vampiric creature who hunts the Xhosa people of Lesotho, South Africa, and to be certain it is a rather obscure bit of trivia. But knowing the “why” of the hili is what a vampirologist does. Why did the Xhosa people of that region of South Africa develop their vampire the way they did? Why does the hili look the way it does? Why is it an indiscriminate killer, attacking anyone at any time of the day or night? Why are the vampires that live due west completely different in every way? Why do they not cross into each other’s territories? I know the answers to all these questions because I have delved into the history, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and religious studies of just about every culture I could get my handson.  \nOne of the questions I am frequently asked is how I ever came to be interested in vampires. I am always hesitant to answer because as simple a question as it may seem, the answer, like the vampire itself, is complex. For me, there was no single event that sparked a sudden interest, no chance meeting with someone who inspired me. As best as I can trace it back, my parents were people who encouraged learning and valued education in their children. At least once a week we would go to the library, returning home with a hodgepodge of books on various subjects. Each night around the dinner table we discussed what we learned that day and it seems to me that nothing brought my parents greater joy than when the whole family became deeply involved in a conversation where all of our cumulative knowledge was pooled, compared, and debated.  \nObviously at some point in my youth I discovered the mythology of the vampire went beyond Bram Stoker’s Dracula, although I cannot honestly say when it happened. I had always wanted to be an author, and some years ago I set out to write a trilogy of vampire novels. 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