The story of the vampire

Author: Sir Burton
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This selected edition of The White Devil·Pazisi, or Twenty-five Stories of a Vampire, explores the mythological tales of bats, vampires, or demons that inhabit the corpses in nature and can bring them back to life. The book contains ancient Indian stories originally recorded in ancient Sanskrit, serving as the prototypes of fairy tales and the ancestors of fictional literature such as Apuleius's The Golden Ass, Boccaccio's Decameron, and the Moses Five Books. The Vampire's Story was first published in 1870, written by the British novelist Richard Burton based on Indian folk myths. The book revolves around the adventures of the renowned King Vikram in Indian history. King Vikram was a wise ruler who brought peace to his kingdom, but a magician named Jogy, who had been angered by his father, set a trap to kill him. Jogy demanded that Vikram bring him a vampire so he could "perform a ritual." The story then shifts to a dialogue between Vikram and the vampire, who narrates eleven thrilling and captivating tales. After Vikram fulfills Jogy's instructions, he recognizes his enemy and strikes first, killing the wicked magician. The conflict between the magician and the king ends in a typical comedic resolution, serving merely to introduce the main body of the book—the eleven vampire stories. In these eleven short tales, we can glimpse the political, cultural, and religious aspects of ancient India and receive a baptism in the moral teachings that have remained valuable since ancient times until today.