The Vampyre: A Tale —— A Tale

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ISBN: 9781334147708 出版年：2018 页码：89 John William Polidori Forgotten Books

The superstition upon which this tale is' founded is very general in the East. Among the Arabians it appears to be common it did not, however, extend itself to the Greeks until after the establishment of Christianity; and it has only assumed its present form since the division of the Latin and Greek churches at which time, the idea becoming prevalent.