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“On the psychological level, illness and death of unknown origin [are blamed on the vampire]. […] The actual cause of the illness or death can be a contagious disease, hence relatives as the first victims, or perhaps mental illness caused by morbid grief or feelings of guilt or anger toward the deceased. There are other possibilities, which have been explained elsewhere, but important here is how the social unit, the given village, copes with the problem.

On the sociological level, we find that the precautions and cures in their variety tend to be village specific. Each community establishes its own meaningful ceremony, choosing from its own stock of symbols to perform anxiety-relieving physical acts. The ill may not be cured nor the dead resurrected, but the anxiety, panic, and fear of the victims' relatives can be allayed through these community rituals and life can revert to its normal course. The corpse is a handy scapegoat.”

— Jan L. Perkowski, Agnes Murgoçi; “The Vampire: A Casebook” (1998)

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