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Discussion Post

Please respond to the following questions by using the article “Cursed by a Bite” by Matt Kaplan. (you can find this article in the text book “Monsters a Bedford Spotlight Reader” by andrew j hoffman)

1)What similarities are there between the story told by the likes of William of Newburgh and modern vampire myths? What is the natural explanation for the physical features of the exhumed monsters?
2)According to some accounts, how were zombies made in Haiti? List the important ingredients.
3)What is different about today’s understanding of disease transmission from the way diseases were understood in the time of William of Newburgh and even for centuries afterwards? How does that past understanding connect to the power of monsters?
4)How is rabies connected to belief in vampires?

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