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Vampire of Venice

També anomenat: Lazzaretto Nuovo skeleton, vampire woman of Venice
Folklore i miteMort viuGairebé no es mouDe 1500 a 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

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Primer registre
1576
A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010
Origen
Venetian (Italy)
Itàlia
Què el causa
Altres
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.
Com et converteixes en un
A woman who died in the plague and was buried in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Com es mou
Gairebé no es mou
The corpse was thought to act from the grave, not to walk.
Punts febles
  • a brick forced between the jaws

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Edat mitjana
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a avui
1576

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

notes de camp

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

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

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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

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

Fonts

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

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