Vampires in Beliefs and Legends

The Reverend Montague Summers, an English writer and expert on the Gothic novel, a Catholic cleric and researcher of the occult, author of works on the history of witchcraft and demonology, on the geography of witchcraft, lycanthropy, and vampirism, traces... the dark legends of vampires to the origins of their emergence in his book. In the search for a clear interpretation of the characteristic features and actions of vampires, in an attempt to formulate a hypothesis that could explain these horrifying phenomena, Summers provides numerous examples and cases of vampirism. Based on eyewitness accounts, he describes the habits, peculiarities, appearance, and distinguishing features of vampires and methods of protection against them.