Archaeologists Investigate a Feared Young Woman's 17th Century Vampiric Grave in Poland
Scientists say the grave goods reflect anti-demonic rituals meant to protect villagers from the dead.
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Secrets of mysterious 17th-century Polish ‘vampire’ have finally come to light
Finding a human body buried with a sickle around their neck and a padlock around their big toe isn’t exactly common fare.Continue ReadingCategory: Archaeology, Science, Refractor: Science & HealthTags: grave, vampire, Archaeology, Bones, ancient, Fossils
Archaeologists investigate a feared young woman's 17th century vampiric grave in Poland
In 2022, excavations at a cemetery in Pień, Poland, led by researchers from the Institute of Archaeology at Nicolaus Copernicus University, led to a mysterious discovery. In what they call Grave 75, they uncovered the 400-year-old remains of a young adult woman buried in a very unusual and unsettling way. A curved iron sickle was placed directly over her neck, with its blade pointing toward her throat, while a triangular iron padlock was attache…
A 17th-century grave located in the Pień cemetery in Poland reveals unusual funerary practices reflecting the local population's fear of the dead returning as demonic beings. The discovery, made by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, geneticists, and anthropologists, documents for the first time the combination of a sickle and a padlock in the same grave. The grave belongs to a young woman of Scandinavian descent, estimated to be between…
A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, geneticists, anthropologists and geologists has dug up in the cemetery of Pień, in the center-north of Poland, a tomb of the seventeenth century that challenges all the funeral norms of the time. It is the burial of a woman between 17 and 19 years old, buried with two iron objects [...]
In Poland, archaeologists find the grave of a young woman with sickle on her neck. Learn all about the rare ritual against evil powers from the 17th century.
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