Some creatures of ancient Slavic daemonology, like vampires and strigoi have gone on to earn some worldwide notoriety – and even became part of popular culture. Slavic mythology, by contrast, remains ...

While contemporary popular culture tends to point toward Transylvania as the seat and heart of the vampiric myth, most scientists today agree that the concept of the vampire came to Western culture ...

Future vampires of which there will be many will not come bounding from the pages of Slavic folklore instead they will be ...

According to many Slavic traditions ... rising as vampires — may have died during a cholera epidemic. Vampire fiction versus folklore As a body decomposes, cells burst, leaking enzymes and ...

Tomislav Longinović, a professor of Slavic and comparative literature, teaches “The Vampire in Literature and Film,” a cultural history course that explores the transition of vampire legends from ...

Whatever you consider Sesame Street’s Count, man or monster, he’s got a simple mission: to count things. It is his drive, his base need, the source of his delightful full name: Count Von Count. Being ...