Vampire of Venice

Λέγεται και: Lazzaretto Nuovo skeleton, vampire woman of Venice

Λαογραφία και μύθοιΑπέθαντοςΜετά βίας κινείται1500–1899

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.1 2

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Πρώτη καταγραφή

1576

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

Προέλευση

Venetian (Italy)

Ιταλία

Τι το προκαλεί

Άλλο

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.

Πώς γίνεσαι ένα

A woman who died in the plague and was buried in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.

Πώς κινείται

Μετά βίας κινείται

The corpse was thought to act from the grave, not to walk.

Αδύναμα σημεία

a brick forced between the jaws

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1500–1899

1900–1967

1968–1999

2000–2009

2010 μέχρι σήμερα

1576

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

σημειώσεις πεδίου

Τι λένε οι πηγές

The 1576 plague killed up to 50,000 people in Venice, close to a third of the city1 2

Forensic anthropologist Matteo Borrini proposed that the brick was a form of exorcism1 2

He called it possibly the first vampire burial identified by archaeology1 2

Simona Minozzi of the University of Pisa dismissed the idea, arguing the brick fell into a gaping jaw by chance1 2

Critics add that the shroud-eater legend is German and not documented in Italy; Borrini replied that Venice was a crossroads for such beliefs1 2

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