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This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we find examples of vampires from literally around the world: each culture and age reshaping the legend in its own image and even seeking psychological and scientific explanations to explain the phenomenon.

Vampires. --- Animals, Mythical. --- Creatures, Fabled --- Fabled creatures --- Fabulous animals --- Fabulous creatures --- Fantastic animals --- Fictitious animals --- Imaginary animals --- Legendary animals --- Mythical animals --- Zoological mythology --- Animals --- Dragons --- Lesbian vampires --- Dead --- Monsters --- Mythology

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La construcción de imágenes divinas tuvo un punto de partida importante en los seres que rodearon al hombre en el principio de los tiempos. De todos ellos, los animales, con atributos imposibles de rivalizar, ofrecieron la posibilidad de construir las formas que soñaron nuestros antepasados. Nadie podía volar como el cóndor, desplazarse y atacar con la elegancia de un puma o aparecer súbitamente como la serpiente. Son estos y otros miembros de la fauna andina los que encendieron la imaginación del misterioso redactor del Manuscrito de Huarochirí. Este documento, "pequeña biblia regional" como lo llamó Arguedas, sigue siendo el único texto sagrado, conservado en quechua, que relata la saga de los dioses, animales y los hombres antes de la llegada de los europeos. Que así sea, no debe sorprendernos, otros libros sacros como Gilgamesch, el Génesis o el Popol Vuh, glorificaron también a la fauna que poblaba los paisajes conocidos. De la misma forma, la construcción de la divinidad sumaba atributos observados en la naturaleza, para encontrar en su totalidad la imagen del dios que se buscaba. Este libro recoge el panteón andino que acompañó las aventuras de la humanidad en el amanecer de la vida, que transcurrió entre la montaña de Pariacaca y las aguas que bordean el santuario de Pachacamac.

Animales, mítico -- Perú. --- Animals, Mythical -- Peru. --- Indios Quechua -- Religión. --- Manuscrito quechua de Huarochirí. --- Quechua Indians -- Religion. --- Animals, Mythical --- Quechua Indians --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Folklore --- Religion --- Animales, mítico --- Indios Quechua --- Religion. --- Religión. --- Creatures, Fabled --- Fabled creatures --- Fabulous animals --- Fabulous creatures --- Fantastic animals --- Fictitious animals --- Imaginary animals --- Legendary animals --- Mythical animals --- Zoological mythology --- Manuscrito de Huarochirí --- Manuscrito de Waru Chirí --- Animals --- Dragons --- Mythology --- cosmologie --- Pérou --- puma --- iconographie --- région --- Lima --- faune --- Huarochirí --- condor --- serpent --- identité culturelle --- mythe --- manuscrit

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anthropology of imagery --- myth criticism --- myth analysis --- gilbert durand --- mythology --- symbolic representations --- Literature --- Fictitious characters --- Animals, Mythical --- Creatures, Fabled --- Fabled creatures --- Fabulous animals --- Fabulous creatures --- Fantastic animals --- Fictitious animals --- Imaginary animals --- Legendary animals --- Mythical animals --- Zoological mythology --- Animals --- Dragons --- Fictional beings --- Fictional characters --- Fictional persons --- Fictitious persons --- Imaginary beings --- Imaginary characters --- Imaginary persons --- Characters and characteristics --- Mythology --- Animals, Mythical. --- Fictitious characters. --- Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship

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Sex customs --- Tanzanians --- Animals, Mythical --- Demonology --- Public opinion --- Swahili language --- Attitudes. --- Sexual behavior --- Discourse analysis. --- Zanzibar --- Social life and customs. --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- Creatures, Fabled --- Fabled creatures --- Fabulous animals --- Fabulous creatures --- Fantastic animals --- Fictitious animals --- Imaginary animals --- Legendary animals --- Mythical animals --- Zoological mythology --- Animals --- Dragons --- Ethnology --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Sex --- Kiswahili language --- Suaheli language --- Bantu languages --- Mythology --- Zanzibar Protectorate --- Zanzibar Executive --- Zanguebar --- Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar --- SMZ --- S.M.Z. --- Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar --- Serikali ya Mapinduzi Zanzibar --- Zanjibār --- Zanzibar (Tanzania) --- Zengibar --- Tanzania --- Attitudes --- Discourse analysis --- Social life and customs --- Sex customs - Tanzania - Zanzibar - Attitudes --- Tanzanians - Sexual behavior - Attitudes --- Animals, Mythical - Tanzania - Zanzibar --- Demonology - Tanzania - Zanzibar --- Public opinion - Tanzania - Zanzibar --- Swahili language - Discourse analysis --- Zanzibar - Social life and customs

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Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese cultural imagination and offering an abundance of valuable and, until now, understudied material. Michael Dylan Foster tracks yôkai over three centuries, from their appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their starring role in twentieth-century popular media. Focusing on the intertwining of belief and commodification, fear and pleasure, horror and humor, he illuminates different conceptions of the "natural" and the "ordinary" and sheds light on broader social and historical paradigms-and ultimately on the construction of Japan as a nation.

Animals, Mythical --- Supernatural. --- Spirits. --- Invisible world --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits --- Religion --- Miracles --- Creatures, Fabled --- Fabled creatures --- Fabulous animals --- Fabulous creatures --- Fantastic animals --- Fictitious animals --- Imaginary animals --- Legendary animals --- Mythical animals --- Zoological mythology --- Animals --- Dragons --- Mythology --- Japan --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Spirits --- J1723.80 --- J1723 --- J4120 --- J4150 --- J5620 --- Japan: Religion in general -- demonology --- Japan: Religion in general -- primitive religions -- general popular beliefs and folk religion --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social psychology and social-cultural phemomena --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture --- Japan: Literature -- folk tales, fairy tales, mukashibanashi, ghost stories --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social psychology and social-cultural phenomena --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс --- ayakashi. --- belief. --- commodification. --- demons. --- east asian cultural studies. --- horror. --- human electricity. --- humor. --- japan. --- japanese cultural imagination. --- japanese culture. --- japanese folklore. --- kanji. --- kokkuri. --- malevolent. --- mamono. --- minzokugaku. --- mischievous. --- mizuki shigeru. --- modernity. --- mononoke. --- monsters. --- mountain goblins. --- natural history. --- shape shifting animals. --- spirits. --- spooky stories. --- supernatural monsters. --- toriyama sekien. --- water sprites. --- yokai.