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Anonymous

Okay, I wasn't sure if this was the best board to ask on, but it's worth a shot. I'm a bit of a mythophile, and I love collecting good re-tellings of myths and legends, as well as good base information.

I recently realized I am very short on good books about vampires. Now, the problem I have come across is that most books on the topic focus on "historical" vampires like Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory. I'm not interested in that. A lot of these books also take any semi-human mythological being that drinks blood and categorize those as vampires.

What I'm looking for is a book about the actual stories from East Europe, the beliefs and legends the Slavs had regarding vampires. The more specific the better.

Can /x/ provide me with any help?

>>	Anonymous well as i recall at barnes & noble they had a book about vampires which detailed all the real stories of european vampires etc. just go to barnes and noble, or whatever bookstore you have and peruse the new age section youre bound to see it. or just read anne rice faggot.

>>	Anonymous >>491964 Anne Rice makes her shit up. There's no research involved. I'm not interested in New Age crap, I'm interested in OLD AGE crap, so to speak. I have been to many bookstores, and they have all failed me. Also, I conjecture that your mother was a prostitute.

>>	SCP-013 >>491938 I actually saw a book in B&N for 20 USD supposedly written by Abraham Van Helsing himself. So, yeah. Check that out, it might be worth a shot.

>>	Anonymous File :-(, x) >>491987

>>	SCP-013 >>491988 What? I'm tryin' to help! And don't start in with EFG shit. This is /x/. Not /b/.

>>	Anonymous >>491991 EFG?

>>	Anonymous >>491994 Say his name a third time and he will appear.

>>	SCP-013 >>491997 Epic Fucknuts?

>>	Anonymous EFG!!!

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>>	Anonymous File :-(, x) >>491994 >>492004 >>492009 BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED I'M EFG EUROBANK!

Anonymous

>>491987

Considering he's a fictional character invented by Bram Stoker, that seems more like a sensationalist author then a reliable source of information.

I mean, Bram Stoker (unlike Rice) too the time to read up on old Slavic legends and THEN make his vampire character as a an amalgamation of the more interesting ones.

The sort of stuff I'm looking for is the stuff HE would have read.

>>	SCP-013 >>492015 While this is true, it still might be an interesting read. And my best advice is that google is your buddy. A lot of what Stoker read was probably lost to time.

Anonymous

>>492051

True enough (Though I do know of one source he used, it'd be remarkably hard to get a copy) But I'm sure there's other books printed today in the same range.

It's just that the new age vampire thing has put more focus on vampires being a worldwide thing as opposed to a Slavic belief, as well as trying to tie in historical characters a bit too much. They also really play up the sexual angle, which was mostly a Victorian invention.

Even in somewhat more reliable books, they tell you about all the ways a vampire can be killed, or warded off, but they rarely tell any folk stories that reflect this.

>>	SCP-013 >>492066 This is true. Like I said, try Googling "Slavic vampire folk tales". Honest, my best advice. And I think the Slavic root about the stake was something about Ash wood. Can't remember all that well.

Anonymous

You have to dig around a bit, but Wikipedia is actually reasonably good if you're trying to track down Stoker's sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_literature#Eighteenth_century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholomance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire#Folk_beliefs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region#Slavic

There's also the Fext in Czech mythology. I can't find much about them, but as far as I can tell they're undead generals from the Thirty Years War who can only be killed with a stake through the heart or a glass bullet. A lot closer to Stoker's Dracula than the bloated, rotting and generally foul traditional vampires, at any rate.

>>	Anonymous File :-(, x) And of course, there's Lilith and the Lamia to consider.

>>	Anonymous >>492178 I've seen a lot of that before (especially the Scholomance bit interests me, there's an almost identical legend in Spain) and while these articles seem to be pretty well written, I really want something a little more reliable, something I can hold in my hands.

>>	Anonymous File :-(, x) The DVD of Roman Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers" (or "Dance of the Vampires") has a tongue-in-cheek but fairly detailed bonus feature about traditional vampires.

Anonymous

>>492183

Yeah. One of the problems I was running into was some of the more obscure stuff, like stirges and nelapsi and other odd variations on the legends is on the web, but the more information I try and get the less reliable the sources become.

That's why I came here, in search of a recommendation for a good book with good sources that focuses on the Slavic legend. Even a collection of authentic vampire folktales would do it for me, but there just doesn't seem to be much stuff like that out there.