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Vampyre Study Article Collection
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"Vampires of the Crescent City: A Case Study," in The Vampire in Europe: A Critical Edition
2014
The various writings collected here are the result of eighteen months of field research I conducted in and around New Orleans, Louisiana. Some of these writings have appeared in partial form in college seminar papers, in handouts at a local conference on esotericism and real vampirism at which I was invited to speak, on regional blog sites about southern culture, and in online community forums overseen by and devoted to self-identifying human vampires. It should also be noted here that none of these writings has appeared in print, though the very nature and importance of their documentarity urge that they should.
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Do We Always Practice What We Preach? Real Vampires' Fears of Coming out of the Coffin to Social Workers and Helping Professionals
2015
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank Drs. Jim Aho and David Wold for their assistance toward gaining IRB approval for this project; Merticus and the Atlanta Vampire Alliance for specific advice and support; Dr. M. Candace Christensen, Carol F. Scott, and the anonymous reviewers for suggestions and assistance in revising drafts of this manuscript; and especially the vampires herein who graciously shared their insights and experiences for this study.
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Vampirism & Energy Work Research Survey (VEWRS)
An Introspective Examination Of The Real Vampire Community
22 March 2006
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Advanced Vampirism & Energy Work Research Survey (AVEWRS)
Examining The Intricacies Of The Vampiric Condition
1 August 2006
Black Rose Society
Vampire Community Research: Social History and Narrative Identity Themes Within Self-Identified Vampires
Self-identified vampires, that is, people who choose to identify themselves as a vampire or as possessing vampiric traits, often come from vastly different philosophical and ideological backgrounds. This survey asks for historical accounts from individuals who identify as vampires (or vampire-adjacent, i.e. medsangs, vampirekin, etc.) which pertain to both their identity and social development.
8 July 2024
Boston University
Real-Life Vampires
BU’s Joseph Laycock on the myth, and the real deal
19 November 2019
Brill
Real Vampires as an Identity Group: Analyzing Causes and Effects of an Introspective Survey by the Vampire . Community
When i first began doing ethnography with the atlanta Vampire alliance
(aVa) in 2007, the self-identified vampires i met expressed irritation that scholars had presented their community as a religious movement. for most self-identified vampires, vampirism is not a ‘religion’ in the substantive sense of having an institution, sacred texts, a catechism, or religious leaders.
19 November 2019
Morbid Planet
Real-Life Vampires
Most people are familiar with blood sucking vampires that have haunted the big screen and works of fiction for decades. But did you know, that vampires really do exist? Well, sanguinarians, that is.
2 October 2019
livejournal
Energy Work, Psi, & Vampirism Research Study - Please Participate
Please consider taking a moment over the next few hours or days to sit down and complete the VEWRS and AVEWRS research surveys and submit them via e-mail. These surveys cover a diversity of topics including but not limited to: energy work and manipulation (whether by natural ability or raised during magickal ritual), psychic and sanguinarian vampirism, paranormal activities, psi-related experiences, magick, occult, spirituality, therianthropy, otherkin, and awakenings (you do NOT have to identify with modern vampirism to participate in this study).
25 December 2007
Glyndwr University
A quantitative investigation into paranormal beliefs
The current study utilises quantitative responses to an online questionnaire established to measure levels of religious and paranormal beliefs
2016
Idaho State University
Idaho State University professor studies self-identified vampires; seeks to understand them and how they are understood
8 March 2011
Idaho State University Assistant Professor of social work D.J. Williams is devoted to researching "self-identified vampires" and the vampire sub-culture and educating mainstream culture about them.
Nature
The real vampires of New Orleans and Buffalo: a research note towards comparative ethnography
24 March 2015
This research note is an elaboration of my ethnographic work of the last 5 years and is here presented to raise careful discussion of the little-explored identity and phenomenon of “real vampirism”.
New York Post
Vampire State Building: NYC is No. 1 city for bloodsuckers, survey shows
28 October 2023
Vampires would love to take a bite out of the Big Apple.
New York City, with nearly 9 million potential victims and its rollicking late-night bar scene, makes the perfect metropolis for Dracula and his caped brethren to establish their lairs, a new report found.
New York Post
Real-life vampires have a really hard time finding health care
8 July 2015
It is not easy being a vampire, and even harder to come out of the coffin to a physician or therapist for fear they will misinterpret the habit of ingesting the blood of willing donors or succumb to stereotyping, a study finds.
Palgrave
THE LIVES OF REAL VAMPIRES REVEALED
24 MARCH 2015
‘Real vampire’ communities live all over the world including the UK and USA, according to an ethnographic study published today in Palgrave Communications. Dr John Edgar Browning, of Georgia Institute of Technology has spent five years researching real vampire communities in New Orleans and Buffalo, New York.
Dracula on the Couch: The Psychiatry of Vampires
29 October 2016
Myth, medical Illness, madness, and modern "real vampires"
EDITORIAL: Study of ‘real’ vampires really sucks
17 July 2015
Thank goodness we have paid faculty on publicly funded college campuses to research the really important issues of our time. Like the difficulty vampires face in gaining the acceptance of society.
Yes, that probably sucks, so to speak.
Idaho State University Research Study On 'Real' Vampires
Unknwon
D.J. Williams, PhD is a visiting professor with the Department of Sociology, Social Work, & Criminal Justice at Idaho State University. He has written a couple of academic articles (in print) on the vampire community. He is interested in conducting a qualitative research study involving real vampires.
OK, so you think you're a vampire. Whose job is it to tell you you're not?
30 July 2015
‘Real vampires’ sincerely think they must feed on others to survive. Should a therapist tell a vampire their self-identity is false? It’s not so obvious
'Real' vampires reluctant to 'come out of the coffin' to social workers – barmy prof
8 Jul 2015
Genuine, blood-drinking vampires lead difficult unlives and are often reluctant to "come out of the coffin" and reveal the fact of their vampirism to social workers and other care professionals, a new study suggests.
Sanguinarian Born and Sired Study
Unknown
Genuine, blood-drinking vampires lead difficult unlives and are often reluctant to "come out of the coffin" and reveal the fact of their vampirism to social workers and other care professionals, a new study suggests.
Krewe: We’re all around you, the real vampires of New Orleans
05 November 2020
Vampires have been a topic in folklore for centuries. For most of their history, vampires were portrayed as monsters. In 1897, Bram Stoker created the last century’s archetype vampire, Dracula, who is portrayed as predatory and entirely inhuman. In her Syfy Wire article, Elizabeth Rayne characterizes early literary and cinematic vampires: “The repulsive visuals of early vampires on film were reflections of the unmitigated evil they were perceived to be.”
Do We Always Practice What We Preach? Real Vampires’ Fears of Coming out of the Coffin to Social Workers and Helping Professionals
Unknown
​Helping professionals in multiple disciplines, including social workers, are commonly taught to embrace human diversity, think critically, empower clients, and respect client self-determination. Indeed, much of clinical practice with clients is predicated on such professional values, which are important to the establishment of a strong therapeutic alliance and an effective treatment outcome. This study applies qualitative measures, such as an open-ended questionnaire and creative analytic practice (CAP) strategy in the form of poetic representation, to provide insights into how people with a specific nontraditional identity, that of “real vampire,” feel about disclosing this salient identity to helping professionals within a clinical context.
Finally, Vampires Are Getting Their Own Academic Study
30 May 2014
A psychologist in the UK has started what’s believed to be the first online study into a little-known but apparently very real subculture: vampires.