What is a Vampire?
October 26, 2017
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as posted by the channelToday, to celebrate Halloween, we’re going to look at the folklore staple the vampire! Let’s look at the spooky story of how the vampire went from medieval legend to sparkly heartthrob.
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Happy Halloween! Get your spooky on with this series of eerie stories from our past
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-Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality. Yale University Press, 1988.
Radford, Benjamin. "VampiresFact, Fiction and Folklore." LiveScience. October 22, 2014. Accessed September 14, 2017.
-"The Bloody Truth About Vampires." National Geographic. October 27, 2016. Accessed September 14, 2017.
"The disturbing world of real life vampires." Metro. July 30, 2017. Accessed September 14, 2017.
Tucker, Abigail. "The Great New England Vampire Panic." Smithsonian.com. October 01, 2012. Accessed September 14, 2017.
Wall, Kim. "Interview with a reallife vampirewhy drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood." The Guardian. August 15, 2015. Accessed September 14, 2017.
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