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They Feared A Teen Girl Was A Vampire And Trapped Her Grave — Centuries Later, Experts Have A Different Theory

”It's shocking to see the sickle over her neck.”

Bored Panda · Sep 9

Why was this 17th-century Polish woman buried with a padlock on her toe and an iron sickle across her neck? 300 years later, archaeologists found the answer

More than 300 years after her death, archaeologists uncovered the unusual grave of a young 17th-century Polish woman buried with a padlock on her toe and an iron sickle across her neck. New research suggests that the people who buried the young woman took precautionary measures to stop her from…

The Economic Times · Sep 3

The ‘vampire woman’ whose 17th-century grave is rewriting what historians know about burial fears in Poland

Since 2005, archaeologists have been excavating an unmarked 17th-century cemetery near Pień, close to Ostromecko in Poland, uncovering more than 100 human burials, at least 30 of which show deliberate signs that the dead were pinned down, locked in place or positioned specifically to stop them from rising. Among the…

The Times of India · Aug 7