The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

From the notes, we know that Stoker read up on Romanian folklore in Emily Gerard’s 1885 article Transylvanian Superstitions (he never visited the country). Belief in vampirism was never an official doctrine subject to written dogma, so Stoker was effectively reading about oral traditions written down in the name of folklore but quite probably, in their native environment, subject to local variations and changes over time. Ironically, by putting so much of this material into the mouth of his “vampire expert” Van Helsing, Stoker himself helps create the immutable “rules” of vampirism endlessly cited thereafter.


Entire title:

The land beyond the forest: facts, figures, and fancies from Transylvania



Content:


CHAP PAGE I INTRODUCTORY
1

HISTORICAL
11

POLITICAL
21

ABRIVAL IN TRANSYLVANIA FIRST IMPRESSIONS
28

SAXON HISTORICAL FEAST LEGEND
45

CHARACTER EDUCATION RELIGION
55

SAXON VILLAGES
71

SAXON INTERIORS CHARACTER
87

MARRIAGE
173

BIRTH AND INFANCY
190

THE SAXONS DEATH AND BURIAL
202

THEIR ORIGIN
210

THEIR RELIGION POPAS AND CHURCHES
217

THEIR CHARACTER
230

ROUMANIAN LIFE
242

ROUMANIAN MARRIAGE AND MORALITY
252

SAXON CHURCHES AND SIEGES
103

THE SAXON VILLAGE PASTOR
117

THE SAXON BROTHERHOODS NEIGHBOURHOODS AND VILLAGE HANN
132

DRESES SPINNING AND DANCING
143

BETROTHAL
160

DANCING SONGS MUSIC STORIES AND PROVERBS
263

ROUMANIAN POETRY
275

XXFV THE ROUMANIANS I NATIONALITY AND ATROCITIES
297

DEATH AND BURIAL VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES
310

DAYS AND HOURS
325