Vampiro in Venezia

[joepunk]

Vampire in Venice

An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws - evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire.

The unusual burial is thought to be the result of an ancient vampire-slaying ritual. It suggests the legend of the mythical bloodsucking creatures was tied to medieval ignorance of how diseases spread and what happens to bodies after death, experts said.

The well-preserved skeleton was found in 2006 on the Lazzaretto Nuovo island, north of the lagoon city, amid other corpses buried in a mass grave during an epidemic of plague that hit Venice in 1576.

 

[Mr. lax]

No kidding, i thought you were suggesting that vampires were real for a second there. A brick in the mouth sounds painful

 

[pagansoul]

A brick in the mouth sounds painful

Not so much if you are already dead as this woman was. It was put in after death when the grave site was revisited.

 

[Abstract]

Tell those prudes that not all sucking is bad.

 

[Jaffa Cake]

It actually wasn't that unusual in the olden days for folk in certain parts of the world to be buried with various 'precautions' to prevent them rising from the grave as a vampire or similar beastie. Sometimes items would be placed in the coffin, and some bodies would even be dismembered prior to burial.

 

[iJohnHenry]

It was put in after death when the grave site was revisited.

OK, who has the balls to do that, if they believe the myth??

More likely some religious nuts, eager to perpetuate the legend for their own purposes.

 

[Mr. lax]

OK, who has the balls to do that, if they believe the myth??

More likely some religious nuts, eager to perpetuate the legend for their own purposes.

That does happen... Maybe they were drunk and feeling courageous?

 

[Mr. Giver '94]

That does happen... Maybe they were drunk and feeling courageous?

Liquid Courage???