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- catalog abstract ""Close your eyes and imagine a vampire: Your mind's eye may conjure up Count Dracula with bared teeth and a shiny tuxedo. But, another kind of vampire was believed to live in rural New England long ago. Author and folklorist Michael E. Bell has spent twenty years pursuing this forgotten vampire tradition. His discoveries will surprise and enthrall skeptics, believers, and all readers of this engaging book." "Bell's odyssey began in 1981 when Rhode Islander Everett Peck told him a family story passed down for generations. In 1892, months after young Mercy Brown succumbed to tuberculosis, her body was exhumed from a local graveyard. Relatives cut out her heart, burned it on a nearby rock, and fed the ashes to her dying brother, hoping to cure him of the wasting disease. They feared that Mercy had become a vampire, sapping her sibling's vitality to provide sustenance for her own spectral existence. Or, had she become a scapegoat, blamed for the baffling affliction ravaging her family?"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12288330.
- catalog coverage "New England History.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Close your eyes and imagine a vampire: Your mind's eye may conjure up Count Dracula with bared teeth and a shiny tuxedo. But, another kind of vampire was believed to live in rural New England long ago. Author and folklorist Michael E. Bell has spent twenty years pursuing this forgotten vampire tradition. His discoveries will surprise and enthrall skeptics, believers, and all readers of this engaging book." "Bell's odyssey began in 1981 when Rhode Islander Everett Peck told him a family story passed down for generations. In 1892, months after young Mercy Brown succumbed to tuberculosis, her body was exhumed from a local graveyard. Relatives cut out her heart, burned it on a nearby rock, and fed the ashes to her dying brother, hoping to cure him of the wasting disease. They feared that Mercy had become a vampire, sapping her sibling's vitality to provide sustenance for her own spectral existence. Or, had she become a scapegoat, blamed for the baffling affliction ravaging her family?"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- ch. 1. This awful thing -- ch. 2. Testing a horrible superstition -- ch. 3. Remarkable happenings -- ch. 4. The cause of their trouble lay before them -- ch. 5. I am waiting and watching for you -- ch. 6. I thought for sure they were coming after me -- ch. 7. Don't be a rational adult -- ch. 8. Never strangers true vampires be -- ch. 9. Ghoulish, wolfish shapes -- ch. 10. The unending river of life -- ch. 11. Relicks of many old customs -- ch. 12. A ghoul in every deserted fireplace -- ch. 13. Is that true of all vampires? -- ch. 14. Food for the dead -- appendix A. Chronology of vampire incidents in New England -- appendix B. Children of Stukeley and Honor Tillinghast -- Notes -- Works sited -- Index -- About the author.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-331) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 337 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0786708999".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Carroll & Graf,".
- catalog spatial "New England History.".
- catalog spatial "New England".
- catalog spatial "New England.".
- catalog subject "2001 M-938".
- catalog subject "Diseases and history.".
- catalog subject "Folklore New England Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "Folklore New England.".
- catalog subject "GR830.V3 B45 2001".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis New England History Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis New England History.".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis history New England Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "Vampires New England Folklore.".
- catalog subject "WZ 309 B434f 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- ch. 1. This awful thing -- ch. 2. Testing a horrible superstition -- ch. 3. Remarkable happenings -- ch. 4. The cause of their trouble lay before them -- ch. 5. I am waiting and watching for you -- ch. 6. I thought for sure they were coming after me -- ch. 7. Don't be a rational adult -- ch. 8. Never strangers true vampires be -- ch. 9. Ghoulish, wolfish shapes -- ch. 10. The unending river of life -- ch. 11. Relicks of many old customs -- ch. 12. A ghoul in every deserted fireplace -- ch. 13. Is that true of all vampires? -- ch. 14. Food for the dead -- appendix A. Chronology of vampire incidents in New England -- appendix B. Children of Stukeley and Honor Tillinghast -- Notes -- Works sited -- Index -- About the author.".
- catalog title "Food for the dead : on the trail of New England's vampires / Michael E. Bell.".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".