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Vampire of Venice

Известен още като: Lazzaretto Nuovo skeleton, vampire woman of Venice
Фолклор и митовеНемъртъвЕдва се движи1500–1899

The 'Vampire of Venice' is the skeleton of a plague victim found with a brick wedged in her mouth. Her excavator argued that she had been taken for a shroud-eating corpse of the kind German folklore calls a Nachzehrer, and silenced with the brick. Other anthropologists reject the reading, and the dispute was aired in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. Whether or not the brick was deliberate, the case shows how hard such beliefs are to prove from bones alone.12

⚔️ Бий се с него
Първо записване
1576
A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010
Произход
Venetian (Italy)
Италия
Какво го причинява
Друго
According to the excavator, gravediggers reopening the plague pit took a corpse whose shroud had rotted through at the mouth for one that was feeding and spreading the disease.
Как ставаш такъв
A woman who died in the plague and was buried in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Как се движи
Едва се движи
The corpse was thought to act from the grave, not to walk.
Слаби места
  • a brick forced between the jaws

Кога се появява за първи път?

Древният свят
Средновековие
1500–1899
1900–1967
1968–1999
2000–2009
2010 до днес
1576

A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010

бележки от терен

Какво казват източниците

1

The 1576 plague killed up to 50,000 people in Venice, close to a third of the city12

2

Forensic anthropologist Matteo Borrini proposed that the brick was a form of exorcism12

3

He called it possibly the first vampire burial identified by archaeology12

4

Simona Minozzi of the University of Pisa dismissed the idea, arguing the brick fell into a gaping jaw by chance12

5

Critics add that the shroud-eater legend is German and not documented in Italy; Borrini replied that Venice was a crossroads for such beliefs12

Източници

  1. 'Vampire' plague victim spurs gruesome debate - NBC News
  2. Nachzehrer - Wikipedia

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Същата епоха: 1500–1899