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Shoemaker of Breslau

También llamado: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Folclore y mitosNo muertoUna mala muerte o un entierro chapuceroDe 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

⚔️ Combatirlo
Primer registro
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Origen
Silesian (German)
Polonia
Qué lo causa
Una mala muerte o un entierro chapucero
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • 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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Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
1591

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

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

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

Fuentes

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

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