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THE VAMPIRE
  • 49  Amsterdam, 1679.
  • 50  W. W. Skeat, op. cit., p. 234.
  • 51  Francesco Saverio Clavigero, Storia Antico del Mexico, Cesona, 1780. English translation by Charles Cullen, 2 vols., London, 1787.
  • 52  Diego Muñoz Camargo, Historia de Tlascala, Book I, c. xix. Edited by A. Chavero, Mexico, 1892.
  • 53  Bernardino de Sahagun, Historia Universal de Nueva-España. Mexico, 1829; London, 1830, in vol. vi of Lord Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico. French translation by Jourdanet and Siméon, Paris, 1880.
  • 54  Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de Nueva-España. Translated by A. P. Maudslay as The True History of the Conquest of Mexico. Hakluyt Society, London, 1908.
  • 55  In Ireland hagiographical lore mention is made of a special burying-place for women who die in childbirth. Lives of the Cambro-British Saints, Ed. Rev. W. J. Rees, 1853, p. 63.
  • 56  Reproduced by the Duc de Loubat, Rome, 1904. And also reproduced by Zelia Nuttall as The Book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans, Berkeley, California, 1903. This codex is accompanied by a contemporary gloss in Spanish.
  • 57  G. de Mendieta, Historia Ecclesiastica Indiana. Icazbalceta, Mexico, 1870.
  • 58  The West Indian “Jumbies” or “Duppies” are ghostly visitants, malignant and terrific spectres. Many of the old houses in the West Indies have the reputation of being haunted in a most unpleasant way.