With Stake and Spade. Vampire Diversity in Poland
135,00 zł
- Wydawnictwo: Instytut Adama Mickiewicza
- Autor: Łukasz Kozak
- Oprawa: Twarda
- Format: 24,3x17,5 cm
- Ilość stron: 180
- Rok wydania: 2020
- ISBN: 9788395689543
If one were to weigh up the greatest Slavic contribution to global culture, vampires would certainly be a contender.
However, the bulk of the ethnographic accounts, press reports, and even court records concerning them is not to be found somewhere in Transylvania (where pop culture would place it because of Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Greece (where Byron first heard of them), or Southern Slavdom (which gave us the word “vampire” in reports from Habsburg officials) but in sources from Poland.
If one were to weigh up the greatest Slavic contribution to global culture, vampires would certainly be a contender.
However, the bulk of the ethnographic accounts, press reports, and even court records concerning them is not to be found somewhere in Transylvania (where pop culture would place it because of Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Greece (where Byron first heard of them), or Southern Slavdom (which gave us the word “vampire” in reports from Habsburg officials) but in sources from Poland.