Villagers buried suspected vampires with blades, rocks

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    The skeleton of a 30-to-39-year-old woman is shown with a sickle placed across the neck, meant to sever her head if she had risen from the dead.

    The dead were buried with sharp sickles across their throats meant to sever their heads if they tried to rise as vampires to prey on the living. Rocks were propped beneath their chins to keep them from biting.

    This was the fate of at least six people buried sometime in the 17th and 18th centuries outside a farming village in northwestern Poland, according to a study published Wednesday in the online journal PLOS One.

    Researchers have been methodically excavating unmarked graves at the mysterious cemetery, on a farm outside the village of Drawsko, for about six years, although the first bones were plowed up by farmers as far back as 1929. So far, experts have examined 285 human skeletons, finding only these six odd burials.

    The “deviant” burial practices match historical records of vampire mythologies, which date at least to the 11th century, including written instructions about how to bury one, according to the study.

    Read more http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-vampire-burials-20141125-story.html
     

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