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Not Now, 400-Year-Old Vampires!
I am always on the lookout for strange and crazy news stories. Here is one such one from Metro UK:
‘The sickle was not laid flat but placed on the neck in such a way that if the deceased had tried to get up most likely the head would have been cut off or injured,’ explained Professor Dariusz Poliński from the Nicholas Copernicus University.
The body was found during archaeological work at a 17th century cemetery in the village of Pien in south-eastern Poland.
According to the university team, she had a silk cap on her head — indicating high social status — and a protruding tooth. Strangely, one of her toes was also secured with a padlock.
The woman was around 35–39 years old. The man found nearby was 35–44 years old.
I don’t know about you but I vote to leave the dead alone. The last time a group of “vampires” were found was in 2014, also in Poland:
Researchers theorize that they were buried in this manner because they were spreading disease. But they could have also just been unusual humans:
‘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 Lesley Gregoricka, from the University of South Alabama.
I am not adding vampire to my 2022 bingo card, that’s for sure.
And look where we are now? Coincidence much?
Leave the vampires alone!!
