“Etta Becker-Donner was a pioneer in the field of anthropology. She would have turned 100 this year. Her birthday comes as a welcome occasion for the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna to commemorate the great field researcher, scientist and former museum director with a small, but fine exhibition” > MORE
(c) wieninternational.at, 2011
A pretty interesting article (c) HAARETZ, 2011.
Not every bloodsucker in Western and non-Western folklore is necessarily a “vampire” though. And btw., the demagogic term “bloodsucker”, along with the idiotic “ritual murder” (blood libel) phantasma, has also been used by Christians to villainize Jews in general throughout history.
Photos (c) The so-called Estrie from Jewish mythology (above)
and a medieval vampire (?) skull from Venice (below) Continue reading
delirium clemens 