I see more of David Bowie than Fess Parker in Tonner’s upcoming Davy Crockett doll, but then, Tonner isn’t known for accurate likenesses.
While I’m commenting, the entire Agnes Dreary line makes me crack up. The costumes remind me strongly of the production and costume design for the Series of Unfortunate Events movie. I especially like Agnes’ Dreary Dinner Party Dress because I am a sucker for poofy sleeves. I also like Sister Dreary’s default outfit, a magnificently impractical hobble dress. Though Agnes Dreary is supposed to be a little Gothy girl, she and her fellow products remind me less of Gothy dudes and more of people in Victorian photographs when they had to sit very still for long periods of time to be rendered in black-and-white. It’s an attractive aesthetic.
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research for yr prev post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region#Africa
Interviewing Vampires
Historian Luise White’s new book examines the social and political significance of African vampire stories
http://clasnews.clas.ufl.edu/clasnotes/clasnotes/9911/
African Speaking and Western Medicine
Throughout East and Central Africa, vampire stories and blood accusations had intensely medical meanings.
http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft8r29p2ss&doc.view=content&chunk.id=s1.3.15&toc.depth=1&anchor.id=0&brand=eschol
Bizarre creatures
by Mir Tamim Ansary
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124152752?tab=details
Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa
by Luise White
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41646019&referer=brief_results
A Storytelling treasury
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29412023&referer=brief_results