%0 Journal Article
%T Vampire as a metaphor
%A Jovanovi£¿ Bojan G.
%J Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
%D 2004
%I Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
%R 10.2298/gei0452227j
%X A vampire, as a demonized deceased human, is used as a specific metaphor to explain unknown sources of various troubles in a community. A malicious deceased one is a mythical creature and as such is to blame for the existing troubles in a community; the creature, in turn, becomes a subject i.e., a victim in a ritual performed to avert the difficulties, so that the community in question could return to its daily life. A myth revival establishes diagnosis and appropriate therapy for the crisis solving. On the other hand, during the next crisis a vampire as a part of the mythical and ritual pattern becomes a troublemaker again.
%K demon
%K deceased
%K myth
%K fear
%K danger
%K illness
%K epidemic
%K death
%K night
%U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2004/0350-08610452227J.pdf