Michael Edward Bell
Author
Language
English
Description
"For nineteenth-century New Englanders, 'vampires' lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities of the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and partially consuming boddies of the deceased. Author and folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. In this book, he shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and,...
Publisher
The Council
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Based on the Council's 30th anniversary grants initiative that invited projects on the subject of freedom; papers presented by scholars representing the six projects that received grants. Authors are: Daniel Weisman, Lawrence E. Rothstein, Paul Buhle, Mairéad Byrne, Daniel Scott, Joanne Pope Melish and Michael Bell.