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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Land Beyond the Forest

by Emily Gerard

A Scottish writer's account of life, customs and superstitions in Transylvania, where she lived in the 1880s. Her descriptions of local beliefs about the dead and the undead were among the sources Bram Stoker consulted for Dracula.

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