#vampire burial

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Workers were recently expanding a road in Luzino, Poland when they unearthed some loose human bones near a church — and a subsequent archaeological dig has now revealed a chilling discovery. Researchers have uncovered the remains of 450 skeletons in a 19th-century mass grave where many of the bodies had been dug up and reburied. Some had even been decapitated and had their skull placed between their legs, while others had coins placed in their mouths, and 20 to 30 percent had bricks arranged alongside their head, arms, and legs — all measures to prevent these "vampires" from rising up out of their graves. Learn more about the discovery of this "vampire" burial: https://bit.ly/49CwdF8

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Archaeologists uncover 17th-century ‘vampire’ burial in Poland | The Past

According to Slavic folklore, sharp instruments such as sickles could be used to decapitate the deceased should it try to leave its grave.

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'Vampire burial' reveals efforts to prevent child's return from grave

The discovery of a 10-year-old's body at an ancient Roman site in Italy suggests measures were taken to prevent the child, possibly infected with malaria, from rising from the dead and spreading disease to the living.

The skeletal remains, uncovered by archaeologists from the University of Arizona and Stanford University, along with archaeologists from Italy, included a skull with a rock intentionally inserted into the mouth. Researchers believe the stone may have been placed there as part of a funeral ritual designed to contain disease—and the body itself.

The discovery of this unusual, so-called "vampire burial" was made over the summer in the commune of Lugnano in Teverina in the Italian region of Umbria, where UA archaeologist David Soren has overseen archaeological excavations since 1987.

"I've never seen anything like it. It's extremely eerie and weird," said Soren, a Regents' Professor in the UA School of Anthropology and Department of Religious Studies and Classics. Read more.

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A wonderful little ramble through mostly Rhode Island history- it's very hard to describe, but very relaxing

[moistkaibagge127]

Would love to be dried in salt and placed in a coffin carved, giant loaf of bread right now with dried garlic next to me like a vampire burial

But apparently I need at least one person to agree for the garlic throwing and bread carving

And maybe another to put me in the ground

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8 Recently Discovered Medieval Vampire Burials

8 Recently Discovered Medieval Vampire Burials

The mythology of vampires is well-known throughout the world. Most countries have some variation on the vampire legend. Remarkably similar, too, are the ways in which vampires can be dispatched, or at least prevented from rising from the grave to plague the living. Modern science has usually dismissed these tales as folklore, however, recent evidence has emerged showing that our ancestors did…

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Post-medieval Polish buried as potential 'vampires' were likely local

Potential ‘vampires’ buried in northwestern Poland with sickles and rocks across their bodies were likely local and not immigrants to the region, according to a study published November 26, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Lesley Gregoricka from University of South Alabama and colleagues. The authors found that those in deviant burials seem to be a predominantly local population, with all individuals buried as potential vampires exhibiting local strontium isotope ratios. These data indicate that those targeted for apotropaic practices were not likely migrants to the region, but instead, local individuals whose social identity or manner of death likely marked them with suspicion in some other way. The authors suggest one alternate explanation behind these apotropaic burials may be the cholera epidemics that were prevalent in Eastern Europe during the 17th century, as the first person to die from an infectious disease outbreak was presumed more likely to return from the dead as a vampire. "People of the post-medieval period did not understand how disease was spread, and rather than a scientific explanation for these epidemics, cholera and the deaths that resulted from it were explained by the supernatural - in this case, vampires," said Dr. Gregoricka.

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Twin Vampires of Sozopol

"The discovery in Sozopol last year quickly made the rounds of domestic and foreign media, which dubbed the remains a “medieval vampire”, but such burials had been found in Bulgaria before, with iron stakes likely driven through the deceased’s heart during burial rites given to intellectuals – a group often suspected by superstitious medieval Europeans of being warlocks communicating with Satan."

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"The root of the vampire legend goes right back to ancient Egypt and Greece, says Dr Tim Beasley-Murray, a senior lecturer at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European studies who teaches on a course entitled Vampires, Society and Culture: Transylvania and Beyond. The myth, he says, then spread up through the Balkans into eastern Europe where it proved fertile during the pre-Christian era: "There is a strong Slavic belief in spirits. Romanian folklore has vampiric figures such as the moroi and strigoi. The word 'mora' means nightmare. But these are common to many cultures. We often see bird- or owl-like figures that swoop down and feed on you."

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