"17th c. “vampire” child buried with padlocked toe" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Dec 2024 3:49 p.m. PST |
"he remains of a young child buried face down with a triangular padlock under the left foot have been discovered in the same cemetery in Pień, northern Poland, where the woman buried with a sickle over her neck and a padlock on her toe was found last year. The child's grave is just five feet away from the woman's. A triangular padlock was found first loose in the topsoil. The subsequent excavation of the area revealed the grave of a child around 5-7 years old at time of death. The child had been buried face-down as an anti-revenant ritual that would compel the deceased to "bite into the ground," and make it impossible for him to rise from the grave to harm the living…"
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 John the OFM  | 17 Dec 2024 1:31 a.m. PST |
I would love to see a movie where a scholarly archaeologist unleashes a horrible monster by digging it up for study, and to keep "it" in a museum. |
| Tango01 | 17 Dec 2024 3:45 p.m. PST |
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| JMcCarroll | 17 Dec 2024 3:55 p.m. PST |
Really! A stake in the heart should work just fine. Idea must have been started by a locksmith. |
| Tango01 | 18 Dec 2024 2:45 p.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 18 Dec 2024 9:32 p.m. PST |
Her "vampire" punishment was even worse; They buried her without her smart phone. No, seriously, there was a PBS "Secrets of the Dead" episode on that graveyard (but no mention of the missing smart phone. ;-) |
| Tango01 | 19 Dec 2024 2:56 p.m. PST |
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