Shoemaker of Breslau

Λέγεται και: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia

Λαογραφία και μύθοιΑπέθαντοςΚακός θάνατος ή ταφή1500–1899

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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Πρώτη καταγραφή

1591

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

Προέλευση

Silesian (German)

Πολωνία

Τι το προκαλεί

Κακός θάνατος ή ταφή

A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.

Πώς γίνεσαι ένα

A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.

Ευφυΐα

Κάποια ευφυΐα

Αδύναμα σημεία

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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Αρχαίος κόσμος

Μεσαίωνας

1500–1899

1900–1967

1968–1999

2000–2009

2010 μέχρι σήμερα

1591

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

σημειώσεις πεδίου

Τι λένε οι πηγές

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

His apparition pressed on sleepers and left bruises and finger marks1

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

The haunting went on after he was moved to unhallowed ground1

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

Πηγές

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

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