ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ancient Mesopotamian Religion, Benge, Forensic Pathology
2 Nov 2017
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Esh: like witches are often scapegoats for social or individual crisis or problems. Cross-culturally : vampiric entities appear in a variety of cultures, vampire blaming is often a means of scapegoatism in much the same way as accusations of witchcraft, romania- women accused if they failed to perform traditional women"s roles . Earliest vampire myths: vampire- like entities in roman, greek, mesopotamian mythology, example - ekkimu- spirits (akin to mana) that wandered the earth stealing the aura of plants, animals, and other animate beings" could materialize as gusts of wind. Lamastu: female demon that consumed humans at night usually babies and small children, death by sucking blood, 4000 years old, accused of spreading disease. Vampires: entities the subsist by feeding off of humans (usually human blood, term vampire not used until 18th century in western europe, popularized by dram stoker"s novel, dracula , published in1897.
