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Shoemaker of Breslau

Auch bekannt als: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Folklore und MythenUntotEin schlechter Tod oder ein schlechtes Begräbnis1500 bis 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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Erstmals belegt
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Herkunft
Silesian (German)
Polen
Was es auslöst
Ein schlechter Tod oder ein schlechtes Begräbnis
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Wie man einer wird
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Intelligenz
Etwas Intelligenz
Schwachstellen
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

Antike
Mittelalter
1500 bis 1899
1900 bis 1967
1968 bis 1999
2000 bis 2009
2010 bis heute
1591

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

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

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

Quellen

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

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