Showing posts with label vampires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vampires. Show all posts

"No exit from burial site"


Found in the Telegraph's weekly feature of curious signage. This one from Sutton Hoo, which does have some famous burial sites.

Suspected vampire burial discovered



Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found the skeleton of a woman with a small brick in her mouth while excavating mass graves of plague victims from the Middle Ages on Lazzaretto Nuovo Island in Venice. The skeleton was removed from a mass grave of victims of the Venetian plague of 1576.

At the time the woman died, many people believed that the plague was spread by "vampires" which, rather than drinking people's blood, spread disease by chewing on their shrouds after dying. Grave-diggers put bricks in the mouths of suspected vampires to stop them doing this.
Found at Neatorama.