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Shoemaker of Breslau

També anomenat: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Folklore i miteMort viuUna mala mort o un mal enterramentDe 1500 a 1899

The Shoemaker of Breslau is one of the fullest early modern accounts of a town proceeding against a walking dead man. After his concealed suicide in 1591, residents of Breslau, now Wrocław, complained for months of a suffocating night visitor, and the magistrates twice had the body dug up. Only complete destruction, with the head and limbs removed and the heart burned, was held to have ended it. The case reached English readers through the philosopher Henry More, who used it as evidence for the reality of spirits.1

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Primer registre
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Origen
Silesian (German)
Polònia
Què el causa
Una mala mort o un mal enterrament
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Com et converteixes en un
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Intel·ligència
Una mica d'intel·ligència
Punts febles
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

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Món antic
Edat mitjana
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a avui
1591

Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)

notes de camp

Què diuen les fonts

1

The town council investigated the rumours and the widow confessed to the cover-up1

2

His apparition pressed on sleepers and left bruises and finger marks1

3

Exhumed on 18 April 1592 after about eight months, the body was intact, with supple joints and the throat wound still open1

4

The haunting went on after he was moved to unhallowed ground1

5

At the second exhumation the corpse was swollen; the heart was found fresh1

Fonts

  1. Vampire Forensics, chapter 6 (Mark Collins Jenkins) - Erenow

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Folklore de les mateixes terres

NachzehrerGerman, 1800StrzygaPolish and Silesian, 1863UpiórSlavic, 1100Pień padlocked burialPolish, 1650VjesciKashubian (northern Poland)

Mateixa època: De 1500 a 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732