Protections against the dead
Apotropaic burials, interventions on corpses and protective objects: documented practices intended to prevent the dead from returning, distinguished from literary inventions.
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Beliefs & rituals
Cultural rules of the supernatural, distinguishing documented practices from reconstructions and inventions.
The threshold and invitation
The idea that the dead or a vampire must be invited inside: a rule more literary than folkloric, central to the vampire-child scene.