Index

  • Abbot of Montserrat, The, 278
  • Abbott, G. F., 33, 92, 161, 206
  • Abipones, tribe of Paraguay, 167
  • Abisag the Sunamitess, 134
  • Absolution of one who has died excommunicate, 101–2
  • Adelhausen, Dominican convent at, 122
  • Adrian, J. V., 290
  • Aelian, 198
  • Afra, S., 123
  • Agamemnon, 158
  • Agapitus I, Pope S., 101
  • Agnes of Montepulciano, S., 130
  • Alardus Gazaeus, 230
  • Alfrida, S., 124
  • Aliphera (festival of fly-catcher at), 198
  • Allacci, Leone, 20, 22, 25, 29, 30–3, 90, 92, 163, 179, 206
  • Alphonsus Liguori, S., 33, 79, 123, 144
  • Altomari, Antonio Donato, 166–7
  • Amatongo (Zulu Ancestor Worship), 12–3
  • Anatomy of Melancholy, 166–7
  • Andrea Avellino, S., 132
  • Angela of Merici, S., 128
  • Angels, 1, 7
  • Angelus, Christophorus, 91
  • Antidote against Atheism, 115, 179–80
  • Antigone, 83
  • Antonia of Florence 123
  • Antoninus of Florence, O.P., S., 125
  • Antony of Padua, S., 55
  • Apuleius, 227, 241
  • Ardisson, Victor, 70
  • Aristophanes, 20, 227
  • Aristotle (on suicide), 142
  • Arrianus of Nicomedia, 20
  • Arunta tribe, 60
  • Asasabonsam (Ashanti vampire), 259
  • Ashanti proverbs, 259
  • Aeschylus, 141
  • Athenaeus, 145–6
  • Attila, 17
  • Aubrey, John, 160
  • Augustine of Canterbury, S., 111
  • Augustine of Hippo, S., 79, 103, 142–3, 165, 202, 229
  • Australian tribes (blood remedies), 17
  • Avebury, Lord, 145
  • Awemba tribe, 10
  • Baganda tribe, 9, 147–8, 167–8
  • Bagnesi, B. Maria Bartolomea, 125
  • Baital (Vetala), 249–51
  • Bajang, 251–52
  • Baldi, Cecilia, 123
  • Bandello, O. P., Matteo, 43
  • Bantu tribes, ancestral worship of, 10–2
  • Barbauld, Anna Letitia, 275
  • Barlings, 160
  • Barnaby of Pistoria, 122
  • Baron Vampyr, Der, 320
  • Basil I, 140
  • Basil of Ostrog, S., 129
  • Bat, vampire, 135–6, 267
  • Ba’thory, Countess Elizabeth, 64
  • Baudelaire, Charles, 327
  • Bauer, Edwin, 320
  • Beane, Sawney, 61
  • Beelzebub, lord of flies, 198
  • Belfour, Rev. Hugo John, 319–20
  • Belgrade (vampire at), 176
  • Bell, Mr. H. J., 265, 267
  • Benadad of Syria, 62
  • Benedict XIV, 23, 24, 119, 120
  • Benedict, S., 102–3
  • Benson, E. F., 321
  • Bérard, Cyprion, 290
  • Beresford, Rev. J., 276
  • Bernard, S., (of Clairvaux), 33, 199
  • Bernardine of Siene, S., 127–8
  • Bernardo Ptolomei, S., 123
  • Beroaldus, 247
  • Bickel, Andréas, 65
  • Billuart, O. P., Charles René, 79
  • Bishop, Washington Irving, 36
  • Blackwood, Algernon, 323
  • Blood, offered to spirits, 10; attracts ghosts, 13; forbidden by divine commands, 13–5; shed at funerals, 17; as medicine, 17; drunk, 64; connected with sexual impulse, 133
  • Blot, Henri, 68–9
  • Blue eyes (a sign of vampirism), 181–2
  • Blunden, Mrs., (epitaph of), 45
  • Boguet, Henri, 60, 78–9, 180
  • Bonney, F. (Australian traveller), 17
  • Bonnefons, Jean, 186
  • Boucicault, Dion, 312–5
  • Boullé, Thomas, 80
  • Boussakis, Dr. M . K., 46
  • Braut von Korinth, Die, 274–5, 276
  • Bristol (Lawford’s Gate), hauntings at, 4–5
  • Brompton, John, 111
  • Brontë, Emily, 7
  • Browne, W. A. F., 63
  • Buckthorn (contra magos), 203–4, 256
  • Buddhist monks (self-immolation of), 152–3
  • Bulgaria (method of destroying vampires in), 208
  • Bullet (charmed to kill vampire), 209
  • Bürger, Gottfried August, 275–7
  • Burial, premature, 34–48
  • Burke, William (and Hare), 58–9
  • Burnes, Alexander, 257
  • Burton, Robert, 166–7
  • Butleigh (Somerset), 160
  • Butters, Mary, 257–8
  • Byron, Lord, 280–1, 289–90
  • C., Eva, (medium), 195
  • Cadet Buteux, vampire, 305
  • Caffres (dread of blood), 13
  • Cain, 183
  • Callaway, Canon, 12
  • Callicantzaros, 163–5
  • Calmet, Dom Augustin, 25–9, 112, 171–5, 193–4, 199, 283, 295
  • Camargo, Diego Muñoz, 260
  • Camillus de Lellis, S., 132
  • Campbell Thompson, Dr. R., 217, 218, 224, 226
  • Cannock Chase, hauntings at, 4
  • Carmilla, 321
  • Carnarvon, Lord (in Greece, 1839), 140
  • Cassian, 230
  • Castellinus, 119
  • Cat (vampire), 169
  • Catherine of Bologna, S., 55–6, 125
  • Catherine of Genoa, S., 129
  • Catullus, 185
  • Caylus, Comte de, 237
  • Cesarini, Cecilia, 123
  • Ceylon, demons of, 156
  • Chabot, Admiral of France, 184
  • Chacu Indians, 237
  • Chadkin, 152
  • Chapman, George, 183
  • Character of an Ugly Woman, A, (1678), 156
  • Charon’s fee, 105–6
  • Chariclides Comicus, 155
  • Charolais, comte de, 64
  • Chesnil, de la Charbonelais, 203
  • Children of Judas (vampires), 183
  • China (suicide in), 145
  • China, vampires in, 237–49
  • Chinese Ghouls and Goblins, 239
  • Ch’ing Shik (Chinese vampire), 237–49
  • Choephoroe, 141
  • Chordewa (witch), 169
  • Chorea (a sign of vampirism), 181
  • Christabel, 276
  • Christmas Eve, legends of, 157
  • Church lands, a curse upon, 160–1
  • Chuwashé (Finnish tribe), 202
  • Cicero (on suicide), 142
  • Ciuateteo, 261–3
  • Clare of Montefalco, O.S.A., S., 125–6
  • Claret, Ven. Antony, 123
  • Clavigero, 260
  • Clement of Alexandria, 198
  • Clifford, Mr. Hugh, 255
  • Codrington, Dr. R. H., 258
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 275
  • Collationes (of Cassian), 230
  • Columella, 155
  • Compendium Theologiae Moralis (Sabetti), 38
  • Contes Orientaux, 237
  • Convent Spectre, The, 278
  • Corey, Goodwife (of Salem), 5
  • Corfu, 205
  • Cosijopii, 264
  • Count Magnus (Dr. M. R. James), 271–3
  • Cowdray, 160
  • Cranstoun, Mr., 275
  • Crawford, F. Marion, 325
  • Cross, made from what tree, 203
  • Cross-roads, burial at, 154–6; augury at, 155; shrines at, 263
  • Crowe, Catherine, 332
  • Crows (omens drawn from), 246
  • Croxton, 160
  • Cuecuesteca, 262
  • Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (Rawlinson and Morris), 226
  • Cuntius, Johannes, 179–80
  • Curses, (dreaded in Greece), 161–2
  • Cuthbert, S., 194
  • Cutting the flesh (in mourning), 15–17
  • Dacre, Charlotte, 277
  • Dagger (consecrated to transfix vampires), 204
  • Dalen, Charles Francis van, 23
  • Darlington Station, hauntings at, 2–3
  • Darwin, Charles, 135–6
  • Davanzati, Archbishop Gioseppe, 23–5
  • David, King of Israel, 134, 171
  • De Prouerbiis Aguri et Lemuelis (Mühlau), 231
  • De Daemonialitate (Sinistrari), 230
  • De Ecclesiae Occidentalis atque Orientalis … consensione, 29
  • De Graecorum … opinationibus, 22
  • De Lancre, 265
  • De Materia Medica, 256
  • De Prodigiis (Julius Obsequens), 252
  • De Trinitate (S. Augustine), 229
  • Deans, Hamilton, 335
  • Dee, Dr. John, 122
  • Délégation en Perse, 226
  • Demon of Venice, The, 278
  • Delrio, S. J., Martin, 180–1, 229
  • Desmodus rufus (blood-sucking bat), 135
  • Devil’s tree (silk-cotton-tree), 265
  • Didacus of Alcala, S., 128
  • Diphylla ecaudata (blood-sucking bat), 135
  • Discorides, 256
  • Dissertatio de Uampiris Seruiensibus, 1
  • Dissertazione sopra I Vampiri, 23, 24–5
  • Dominica of S. Mary, 123
  • Donatus, S., 50
  • Doolittle, Justus, 246
  • Dorat, Jean, 187
  • Dorset, St. John (Hugo John Belfour), 319–20
  • Dorval, Madame, 291, 293, 294
  • Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 323–4
  • Dracula, 331, 333–7
  • Dracula (dramatic version), 335–7
  • Dreams and Ghosts, 4
  • Dumas, Alexandre (père), 294–303
  • Durandus, 121
  • Dureford (Sussex), 160
  • Durham, Mr. James (sees ghost), 2–3
  • Ea-bani, 218
  • Easter, the first, 2, 173
  • Edward the Confessor, S., 125
  • Egyptian ka, 231
  • Ekimmu (Departed spirit), 218, 220, 222–4, 248
  • Elena and Gerardo (Bandello), 43–4
  • Elis (vampire tradition in), 167; (festival of god of files at), 198
  • Ellenore (Lenore), 275–7
  • Ellis, Havelock, 133, 184
  • Empedocles, 153
  • Encore un Vampire, 305
  • Épaulard, Dr. A., 57
  • Eskimo sorceress (suicide of), 153
  • Espinosa, Cardinal Diego de, 36–7
  • Etrennes d’un Vampire, Les, 305
  • Eugippius, 53
  • Euphorion of Chalcis, 147
  • Euripides, 141
  • Eustasius (and Euphrosina), 50
  • Eustochium, S., 130
  • Evagrius Ponticus, 49
  • Excommunication, 84–90; in the Greek Church, 93–100
  • Faber, Henri, 290
  • Fables (Gay), 258
  • Fairfax House (haunting of), 181
  • Faithfull Shepherdesse, The, 204
  • Falaley (Russian monk), 152
  • Familiars, 251–2
  • Ferrage, Blaise, 61
  • Féval, Paul, 303
  • Fils vampire, Le, 303
  • Fiorelli, 320
  • Flecker, James Elroy, 7
  • Fletcher, John, 204
  • Flies (evil spirits and), 198
  • Flowering of the Strange Orchid, The, 322
  • Fly-catcher (Zeus the), 198
  • For the Blood Is the Life, 325
  • Fornari, 234
  • Fortis, Alberto, 203
  • Foster, Anne, 81
  • Four Wooden Stakes, 325–7
  • Francis Caracciolo, S., 132
  • Francis, Elizabeth, 251–2
  • Frankenstein, 281
  • Gabienus, 38
  • Galland, Antoine, 237
  • Gandillon, Pierre and George, 60
  • Garanchacha (Son of the Sun), 238
  • Garlic, shunned by vampires, 209
  • Gaulminus, Gilbertus, 229
  • Gautier, Théophile, 320–1
  • Gay, John, 258
  • Gentile of Ravenna, 123
  • Gerardo and Elena (Bandello), 43–5
  • Geronymo de la Madre de Dios (Gracian), 130
  • Gervase of Tilbury, 227
  • Ghouls, 231–7
  • Giaour, The, 282–3
  • Gietmann, S.J., Gerard, 121
  • Giles, Molly and Dobby (of Bristol), 4–5
  • Gilgamish, 217–8
  • Giraldo, Mathias de, 233
  • Girvan (Ayrshire), hauntings at, 3–4
  • Glastonbury, 160
  • Godard, S., 106–7
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 274–5
  • Gow, Captain Neil, 5–6
  • Grans, Hans, 190–2
  • Graves, ill-omened, 148; of murderers, 149–50; pelted with stones, and why, 149–50
  • Greenlanders (impregnation legends among), 238
  • Gregorio de Nacianceno, 130
  • Gregory I, S., 1, 32, 102, 121
  • Gregory VII, S., 115
  • Gregory of Langres, S., 54
  • Gregory of Tours, S., 51
  • Groot, Dr. T. T. M. de, 238
  • Guérin, Monsignor, 51
  • Gunther of Bamberg, 115
  • Haarmann, Fritz., 188–93
  • Hag of the Mountains, The, 278
  • Haida Indians, 60
  • Hamilton, Miss M., 278
  • Hanover, the Vampire of, 188–93
  • Hare (and Burke), 58–9
  • Harenberg, John Christian, 23
  • Hartmann, Dr. Franz, 39, 134
  • Hayti (obeah in), 267
  • Hedwige, S., 130
  • Helme, Mrs., 278
  • Hemans, Felicia, 203
  • Henderson, William, 257
  • Herbert, William, 278
  • Herero tribe (ancestral worship), 10–11
  • Hermontinus, 37
  • Herodotus, 66–7
  • Hertel, John, 23
  • Hilary, S. (and Pelagia), 243–5
  • Hildebrand, Theodor, 320
  • Hinton-on-Mendip, 160
  • Hirsch, Franz, 320
  • Histoire curieuse … des sorciers (Giraldo-Fornari), 233–6
  • Historia Francorum, 51
  • Historia Naturalis (Pliny), 37–8, 198
  • History of Witchcraft (Montague Summers), 195
  • Hodder, Reginald, 325
  • Horace, 153, 185, 227
  • Horrid Mysteries, 278
  • Horse-shoes (to bring luck), 257
  • Horseleach (Proverbs xxx, 15), 230–1
  • Horseley Curties, T. J., 278
  • Horst, Georg Conrad, 2
  • Host, Sacred, put in tombs, 104–5
  • Hours of Idleness, 277
  • Hugh of Lincoln, S., 125
  • Humbert, Cardinal, 105
  • Hunt, Ales (of St. Osyth), 252
  • Huysmans, J.-K., 77
  • Ibo (Nigerian tribe), 222
  • Icard, Dr. (of Marseilles), 46
  • Ida of Louvain, 123
  • Impregnation (by sun and moon), 237–8
  • In a Glass Darkly, 321
  • In Court and Kampong (Clifford), 255
  • Incorruption of bodies, 124–8
  • Incubi (procreation by), 228–30
  • Ingiald, 167
  • Injurieux, S., 51
  • Innocent III, 1
  • Irradiation, mystic, 121–4
  • Jack the Ripper, 65
  • James, Dr. M. R., 271–3, 280
  • Jamguillaume, Clauda, 61
  • Januarius of Naples, S., 126
  • Jeremias, 15, 16
  • Jerome, S., 16
  • Jerusalem, Siege of (under Joram) 62–3; (by Titus), 63, 116
  • Jew of Malta, The, 246
  • Jews (refrain from blood), 14
  • Joannes Secundus, 186–7
  • Johannes Diaconus, 121
  • Johannes Moschus, 49
  • John Capistran, S., 128
  • John of the Cross, S., 123
  • John the Almsgiver, 49
  • Johnson, Dr., 22
  • Joram, king of Judah, 62–3
  • Jordanes, 17
  • Judas Iscariot, 183
  • Juliette, or, les Prospérités du Vice, 60, 64, 280
  • Julius Obsequens, 252
  • Julius Solinus, 198
  • Jumbie-tree (in West Indies), 265
  • Jusk (god of Shilluk), 9
  • Justine, ou les Malheurs de la Vertu, 280
  • Juvencus, C. Vettius Aquilinus, 51
  • Juventius and Maximus, SS., 124
  • Kalunga (god of Ovambo), 11
  • Kama Sutra, 187
  • Karens (Burmese tribe), 249, 255
  • Karpathos (Scarpanto), 223
  • Kelley, Isabella, 278
  • Kiss, the, 185–8
  • Kiziba, natives of, 9
  • Knill Court (Herefordshire), 246
  • Knox, Dr. Robert (of Edinburgh), 59
  • König, Ewald August, 320
  • Kunigunde, S., 124
  • Kwakiutl Indians, 60
  • Labat, Père, 267
  • Lacassagne, Dr., 64
  • Laius, the sin of, 158
  • Lambertini, Cardinal, see Benedict XIV
  • Lamia, 226–8
  • Lamia, L., 37
  • Lang, Andrew, 4
  • Langsuir, 251, 253–4
  • Lanuza, Giovanni-Battistade, 123
  • Lapps (finger-ring custom of), 223
    • (familiars among the), 252
  • Larat, Jean, 303
  • Last of the Vampires, The, 330–1
  • Lateran Council, Fourth (1215), 1
  • Lathom, Francis, 278
  • Lauda, Diego, 123
  • Launay, Gabrielle de, 40–3
  • Lawson, J. C., 19, 184, 230
  • Le Fanu, Sheridan, 280, 321
  • Lenore, 275–7
  • Leo IX, S., 105, 114
  • Leo X, 85
  • Leontius of Cyprus, 49
  • Leopold (and Loeb), 70
  • Lettres Juives, 229
  • Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 277
  • Lexicon (of Photius), 257
  • Leza (god of Bantu tribe), 10
  • Liddell, Hon. Henry, 329
  • Liebava (vampire at), 172–3
  • Lilith, 226–9
  • Lindpaintner, P. von, 312
  • Lombard Code, 228
  • Londe, Dr. Charles, 47
  • Loogaroo, 265–7
  • Lorenzo Guistiniani, S., 128
  • Louviers (witchcraft at), 80
  • Loves of Paris, The, 303
  • Lucas, Paul, 205
  • Lusitanus, Dr. Zacutus, 46
  • Lutgarde, S., 130
  • Lycanthropia, 166–7
  • Macarius, S., 50–1
  • Macedonia, 20
  • Macedonian Folklore, 33, 206–7
  • MacGregor, Major C. G. (and ghosts), 3
  • Machen, Arthur, 77
  • Macrobius, 155
  • Macuilxochitl, 260
  • Mahomet II, 141
  • Maidstone (witches hanged at), 81
  • Maina (local tradition in), 140–1
  • Malay Magic (Skeat), 255
  • Malleus Maleficarum, 25, 32, 165, 174, 180, 202, 229
  • Mammone, Gaetano, 64
  • Mandeville, Sir John, 203
  • Mandrakes, 155–6
  • Manetho, 182
  • Maniac Father, The, 332
  • Manriquez, Don Alphonso, 208
  • Maraves, African tribe, 148
  • Marcellus, Sidetes, 166
  • Marguerite Van Valkenissen, 130
  • Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, S., 56, 125, 130
  • Marlowe, Christopher, 246
  • Masticatione Mortuorum, De, 23
  • Masticatione Mortuorum, De (Ranft), 201
  • Mathia de’ Nazzarei, B., 130
  • Maturin, Charles Robert, 277
  • Mauriceau, Dr., 58
  • Maxwell, James Clerk, 328–9
  • Maxwell, Sir William, 254
  • Mayo, Dr. Herbert, 175–9
  • Meeke, Mrs., 278
  • Meifsner, Christian Karl, 290
  • Melanesians, The, 258
  • Melchior of Zwettl, Abbot, 112
  • Melor, S., 52
  • Ménard, Nicholas-Hugues, 105
  • Mendieta, Fray, 264
  • Menology (Symeon Metaphrastes), 49
  • Metaphrastes, Symeon, 49
  • Michael Caerularius, 105
  • Michan’s Church, S. (Dublin), 117–8
  • Miotecaciuatl, 263
  • Mietlampa, 263
  • Middleton, Charles, 277
  • Middleton, Jessie Adelaide, 12
  • Midland Daily Telegraph, 47
  • Midnight Groan, The, 278
  • Minski, 60
  • Miracles in causes for canonization, 120
  • Miss Kitty (parody), 276
  • Mist (vampire as a ), 198
  • Mitylene, 208
  • Moabites, 17
  • Modern Spiritism (Raupert), 175
  • Moderne Vampyr, 320
  • Moderner Vampyr, Ein, 320
  • Montague, Edward, 278
  • Monte-Cristo, 296–7
  • More, Dr. Henry, 115–6, 180
  • Moreau, Dr. Oaul, 68, 70
  • Morgano, 312
  • Mormo, 20
  • Morte, Amoureuse, La, 320–1
  • Morley, Henry, 312–4
  • Mort réelle et la Mort apparente, La (Icard), 46
  • Mourning practises (laws to regulate), 16
  • Mühlau, 231
  • Muret, Marc-Antoine, 36
  • Mussimo, Fabrizio (raised to life), 53–4
  • Mysteries of London, The (G. W. M. Reynolds), 58
  • Narni (apparitions before), 114–5
  • Naxos, (local custom in), 105
  • Necromancer, The, 331
  • Necrophagy, 60–6
  • Necrophilia, 66–71
  • Nergal, 217
  • New Guinea (blood feared in), 13
  • Newstead, 160
  • Newton (Travels in Levant), 208
  • Nicholas V, 127
  • Nicolas of Myra, S., 130
  • Nicolas of Tolentino, O.S.A., S., 126, 128
  • Nimbus in art, 121
  • Nordier, Charles, 290–1, 294
  • Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England, 257
  • Nott, Dr. John, 187
  • Nouveaux voyages aux Isles d’ Amérique, 267
  • Nyakang (deified hero), 9
  • Obeah, 265–7
  • Ocean of Story, 249–50
  • Odolric of Conques, 107
  • Odyssey, 15
  • Oedipus, the saga of, 158–60
  • Oliphant, Laurence, 134
  • Oraons (tribe of Bengal), 169
  • Orestes (and blood-guilt), 141
  • Ortiz, Diego, 123
  • Ossenfelder, Heinrich August, 274
  • Oswald, Dr. John, 47
  • Othmar, S., 104
  • Otia Imperialia, 227
  • Ovambo tribe, 11–2
  • Ovid, 186, 228
  • Owl, regarded as sacred, 182
  • Paladino, Eusapia, 194–5
  • Palmer, Mr. Clapham, 6
  • Pantaleone, S. (Relics of blood of), 127
  • Parasite, The, 323–4
  • Paré, Ambroise, 117
  • Parsons, Mrs. Eliza, 278
  • Pascal Babylon, S., 132
  • Pashley, Robert, 19
  • Passerat, 247
  • Patrick, S., 52
  • Patroclus (demands funeral rites), 81–2
  • Paul, Arnold, 280, 282
  • Pausanias, 83, 198
  • Pawang (Malay wizard), 252
  • Pelesit, 251
  • Penanggalan, 251, 255–6
  • Penzer, Mr. N. M., 249–50
  • Percy, George (Deputy Governor of Virginia), 62
  • Peregrinus, 153
  • Perfumed Garden, The, 187
  • Periander of Corinth, 67
  • Petroff, 152
  • Peter I., S., (the Vladika), 129
  • Phaedo, 142
  • Phantom, The, 314–8
  • Philinnion and Machates, 229
  • Philip Neri, S., 53–4, 132
  • Philippe, Mons., 291, 293, 294
  • Philistines, 17
  • Phlegon of Tralles, 229, 274
  • Phœnicians, 17
  • Pichot, Amédée, 290
  • Pierart, Z. T., 195
  • Pilgrimages to Palestine, 115
  • Pittadro, Lady (witch), 80
  • Pius VI, 85
  • Planché, J. R., 306–8, 311–2
  • Plato, 20, 142
  • Plautus, 185
  • Pliny senior, 37–8, 198
  • Plumröder, 133
  • Polichinel Vampire, 305
  • Polidori, Dr. John William, 280–90
  • Polong, 251
  • Pontianak, 251, 253
  • Present State of Greek and Armenian Churches, 1678, 23
  • Prest, Thomas Preskett, 61, 332
  • Preta, 249
  • Prodigies seen in the air, 116
  • Propertius, 247
  • Psellus, Michael, 229
  • Pseudolus, 185
  • Physical Research, Proceeding of National Laboratory of, 5–6
  • Purgstall, Countess, 275
  • Purple Terror, The, 322–3
  • Putanisme d’Amsterdam, le, 257
  • Pye, H. J., 276
  • Quashee (West Indian native), 265–7
  • Rachel, Mlle., 39–40
  • Ranft, Michael, 201
  • Ralston, W. R. S., 19, 206
  • Rattray, Mr. R. Sunderland, 259
  • Raupert, T. Godfrey, 175
  • Ravachol, 58
  • Ravello of Ferrara, S., 122
  • Real Ghost Stories (W. T. Stead), 3
  • Red hair (regarded as sign of vampirism), 182–3
  • Redi, Francesco, 183
  • Rees, Mrs. (of Cardiff), 47
  • Regnault, Jean, 58
  • Rélation de ce qui est passé a Sant-Erini, 22
  • Relics, potent against vampires, 208
  • Religious System of China (de Groot), 238
  • Renaud, Pierre, 58
  • Researches in the Highlands of Turkey (Tozer), 205
  • Reste arabische Heiderstums (Wellhausen), 231
  • Resurrection Men, 58–59
  • Revue d’Assyriologie, 228
  • Reynolds, G. W. M., 331
  • Rheticus, S., 51
  • Rhodes (vampire exorcized in), 207
  • Ricaut, Paul, 23, 93
  • Richard, S. J., Father François, 22, 32
  • Richard of Saint-Vannes, 115
  • Rings, magic properties ascribed to, 223
  • Rita of Cascia, O.S.A., S., 128
  • Rochtaillée, Mlle. de, 58
  • Roche, Mrs. Regina Maria, 278
  • Rohl, John Christopher, 23
  • Rohr, Philip, 23
  • Roman, Victor, 325–7
  • Romeo and Juliet (similar themes in literature), 310–1
  • Rooks (omens drawn from), 246
  • Room in the Tower, The, 321
  • Roscoe, Rev. J., 13
  • Rose of Lima, S., 122, 228
  • Rose of Viterbo, S., 130
  • Rothe, Friedel, 190
  • Russia, outbreaks of murderous fanaticism in, 150–2
  • Sabbatarians, those born on a Saturday, 33, 163
  • Sabetti, S.J., Aloysius, 38, 143–4
  • Sade, Marquis de, 60–1, 280
  • St. Irvyne, 277
  • Salem witchcraft, 5
  • Sanna, Elizabeth (serva Dei), 120
  • Santorini, isle of, 23, 205
  • Saturday, why holy, 33
  • Saulle, Dr. Legrande du, 64
  • Scacchus, 119
  • Scatcherd, Miss Felicia, 197
  • Scheffer, J., 252
  • Scholastica, wife of S. Injurieux, 51
  • Schomburg, Sir Robert, 135
  • Schrattembach, Cardinal, 25
  • Scott, Sir Walter, 275–6
  • Scribe, Eugène, 303–4
  • Scripandi, S.J., Father, 56
  • Second Maiden’s Tragedy, The, 308–10
  • Selbtsmond, Der (Marsaryk), 144
  • Seltzam, Dr., 320
  • Semitic Magic (Campbell-Thompson), 224
  • Serres, Maurice de, 404–3
  • Seven Spirits, the, 224
  • Severinus, S., 53
  • Seyé (Blaise Ferrage), 61
  • Shaw, Dr. T. Claye, 133
  • Shelley, Mary, 281
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 276–7, 281, 289
  • Shilluk tribe (hero worship), 9
  • Shirley, James, 183
  • Siamese (cutting of hair among), 223
  • Siméon, Alexandre, 68
  • Sinistrari, Ludovico Maria, 79, 180, 230
  • Skeat, Dr. W. W., 254, 255
  • Social Life of the Chinese (Doolittle), 246
  • Solon, code of, 16
  • Somaglia, Cardinal della, 37
  • Songs of the Russian People, 19
  • Souchkoff, 152
  • Southey, Robert, 278–9
  • Souvestre, Pierre, 319
  • Spared Hours of a Soldier (1623), 183
  • Spencer, W. R., 276
  • Spinola, Cardinal, 37
  • Stanislaus of Cracow, S., 55
  • Stanley, J. T., 276
  • Stenbock, Stanislaus Eric, Count, 324
  • Stewart, Dugald, 275
  • Sting (vampires with a), 179
  • Stock, John Christian, 23
  • Stoker, Bram, 333, 335
  • Strix, 228, 230
  • Studies of Death, 324
  • Suicide (ethics of), 142–4
  • Suicides (graves of), 154
  • Sunday, child born on, 162
  • Suore Morte, 102–3
  • Survival (ed. Sir James Marchant), 197
  • Sweeny Todd, 61–2, 332
  • Swettenham, Sir Frank, 252–3
  • Syriac exorcism, 225
  • Taboo (among the Ibo), 222–3
  • Taglioni, Paul, 312
  • Taylor, William (of Norwich), 275–6
  • Ten Tables, laws of the, 16
  • Teresa of Avila, S., 129–32
  • Terry, Edward, 318–9
  • Tertullian, 48, 49, 56, 84, 227
  • Tezcatlipocâ, 261–2
  • Thalaba the Destroyer, 278–9, 283
  • Theodore of Petra, 54
  • Theodosius of Alexandria, 100
  • Theodosius the Cenobite, S., 54
  • Thérèse de l’Enfant Jésus, S. (The Little Flower), 7
  • Thévenot, Jean de, 232
  • Thomas, Jean, 57
  • Thomas (the Anchorite), 49
  • Thomas Aquinas, S., 119, 160, 174
  • Thomas Lombard, 122
  • Thouret, Dr., 39
  • Thousand and One Nights (Burton), 204; (Mardrus), 232; (Forster), 233
  • Tiberius, Dr. (of Athens), 69
  • Tibullus, 185
  • Tintern, 160
  • Tlazolteotl, 262
  • Tonatiuh, 260
  • Tornaeus, 252
  • Torquatus, S., 53
  • Tournefort, M. Pittonde, 280, 283
  • Tozer, H. F., 205
  • Transcendental Physics (Zoellner), 175
  • Transfer, The, 323
  • Travels and Discoveries in the Levant (Newton), 208
  • Travels in Bokhara, 257
  • Travels into Dalmatia (Fortis), 202–3
  • Travels into the Levant (Thévenot), 232
  • Travels of Three English Gentlemen (c. 1734), 22
  • Trois Vampires, Les, 303, 304–5
  • True Story of a Vampire, The, 324
  • Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions, On the (Mayo), 175–9
  • Turco-Graecia, 207
  • Tuschelin, O. S. D., Christina Mechthild, 122
  • Two Lovers, The, 51
  • Typhon, 182–3
  • Tyrol (a wedding ring custom of the), 223
  • Upton, Smyth, 330–1
  • Utukku (a phantom), 217–8
  • Vacher, Joseph, 64–5
  • Vacher l’éventreur (Lacassagne), 64
  • Vampir, Der (Ossenfelder), 274
  • Vampire, Le (Baudelaire), 327–8
  • Vampire, Le (burlesque, 1820), 305
  • Vampire, Le (Charles Nodier, Jouffroy and Carmouche), 290–6
  • Vampire, Le (Dumas and Maquet), 297–303, 317
  • Vampire, Le (Mengals), 306
  • Vampire, Le (Scribe and Mélesville), 303–4
  • Vampire, The (Boucicault), 312–4
  • Vampire, The (Hodder), 325
  • Vampire, The (José G. Levy), 319
  • Vampire, The (Planché), 306–8
  • Vampire, The (Reece; burlesque), 318–9
  • Vampire, The (St. John Dorset), 319–20
  • Vampire Bride, The, 329–30
  • Vampire Bats, 135–6
  • Vampire-killers (dervishes), 210
  • Vampire of Souls, A, 331
  • Vampires, definition, 1–2; derivation and discussion of word, 18–22; early treatises upon, 22–3; precautions to prevent return of persons as, 202–10; attacking animals, 209–10; earliest representation of, 225
  • Vampiri, I (di Palma), 311
  • Vampirisme, le, defined by Dr. Épaulard, 57
  • Vampiro, Il (Rotta), 312
  • Vampyr, Der (Fiorelli), 320
  • Vampyr, Der (Hildebrand), 320
  • Vampyr, Der (Wohlbrück and Marschner), 311
  • Vampyr, Ein (Ulrich Franks), 312
  • Vampyr und Seine Braut, Der, 320
  • Vampyre, The (By the Wife of a Medical Man), 331
  • Vampyre, The (Maxwell), 328–9
  • Vampyre, The (Polidori), 280–90; (translated), 290
  • Vampyre der Residenz, Die (Seltzam), 320
  • Vampyrus Spectrum (bat), 135
  • Varney the Vampire, 331–3
  • Varro (De Lingua Latina), 155
  • Vendetta (in Greece), 141
  • Veronica Giuliani, S., 132
  • Verzeni, Vincenzo, 66
  • Vetala (Indian vampire), 249–51
  • Viehe, Rev. G., 11
  • Vikram and the Vampire (Burton), 250–1
  • Villani, Maria, 124
  • Vincent, Ferrer, O.P., S., 122
  • Vitalian, S., 130
  • Vollum, M.D., Colonel E. P., 39
  • Von Vampyren (Harenberg), 23
  • Voodoo, 265–7
  • Voyage au Levant (Lucas), 205
  • Vylars, Mme. C. le, 219
  • Wajagga tribe, 147
  • Walburga, S., 130
  • Walpurgis Night, 257
  • Walsham, Sir John, 246
  • Walter, C. R. P., Bl., 124
  • Wassilko-Serecki, Countess, 5
  • Water, vampires unable to cross, 208
  • Waverley, 160
  • Wedding-ring (traditions connected with the), 223
  • Wells, H. G., 322
  • Wellhausen, 231
  • Werewolf, connected with vampires, 21; actual change denied, 165–7
  • Weyer, Johann, 228
  • White, Fred M., 322–3
  • Whitney, Constance, 40
  • Wicks, Ernest, 46
  • Wieland, Christoph Martin, 274
  • Wilfred, S., 124
  • William of Newbury, 207
  • Willibrord, S., 130
  • Willoughby-Meade, Mr. G., 239
  • Winslow, Dr. Forbes, 47
  • Xipilli, 260
  • Xochilhuitl, 260
  • Xochiquetzal, 260
  • Zauber-bibliothek (Horst), 2
  • Zephyr, or the Stratagem, 22
  • Zoellner, Professor, 175
  • Zofloya: or, the Moor, 277
  • Zopfius, John Heinrich, 1–2, 23
  • Zschokke, 320
  • Zügun, Eleonore, 5–6
  • Zumárraga, Juan de, 264