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Vampires and Other Beings: in the Folk Belief of the South Slavs

by Tihomir R. Đorđević

The Serbian ethnologist Tihomir Đorđević spent decades collecting what villagers across the Balkans actually said about their dead: real vampire cases with names and dates, night-hags, weather-demons. The first English translation of his classic study.

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196 pages · 5.5 × 8.5 in (14 × 22 cm) · Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle

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