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Summary Of Vampires, Burial And Death By Paul Barber

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The author of the book is Paul Barber, he is a professor at the Metanoia Institutes as well as a visiting professor at the Middlesex university. However, what I noticed was that his specialty deals within the world of nursing and Phycology. What first came to mind was that, why would a psychiatrist would write about subjects such as vampires, burial, and death? Based on his previous publishing’s like “Essentials of Pharmacology for nurses (2009)” and “The mental capacity act 2005: a guide for practice” , everything else is related to the medical field, and going into the supernatural suddenly seemed odd. After thinking about it after a while, I realized that even though the book “Vampires, burial and death” is a bout supernatural folklores and observations, Barber talks about and breaks down the Medical and phycology of each story. With the information of the medical field that is available today, …show more content…

Meaning that, some of the people who have been accused had different reasons behind them, to become accused. Normally, it would be those who were usually bitten by a vampire, preformed any type of evil rituals, or when a corpse is exhumed, the body is looking lively than ever. However, the suspicions of a vampire changed or added more reasons to assume that there is a vampire among them. In the many stories that Barber brought up, what seemed to give the idea of a vampire lurking around, is that if a few citizens start to say that they are seeing either deceased people or ghost and if there is a sudden appearance of a epidemic, such as disease and contamination, When looking at each case in the stories, no matter what the condition is, if a deceased person is under accession and has its body exhumed and it appears to be fresh and full with blood, then to the citizen’s logic, that person is a

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