... Pope Innocenzo VIII with the Papal bull "Malleus Maleficarum- fixed that suicides and excommunicates were destined to "live- again as vampires, because they were out of God's Grace and therefore Evil One's easy preys. The Bull reduced strongly the abjurations among the ignorant rural populations; consequently both Churches developed their own peculiar methods against "vampires-. The Roman Catholic one set up ... Bulgaria there was an epidemy of cattle plague provoked by an invasion of vampire bats. Needless to say, farmers charged vampires with the plague and defended their cattle with ...

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... apos;burning'. Stoker also employs juxtaposing colour imagery, initially with 'white teeth'; a colour often associated with the motif of innocence and purity, against 'ruby... burning... red' which are common symbols of lust, warning and foreshadowed death. This runs parallel with Sarah Peter's critique of Dracula, who states that 'the most significant reason for the omission of the religious and superstitious ... of the Ancient Mariner, a character based morality ballad, critic Richard Holmes interprets temptation as 'a Christian allegory of fall and redemption; and a moral study of...

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