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Vampire of Venice

Aussi appelé: Lazzaretto Nuovo skeleton, vampire woman of Venice
Folklore et mythesMort-vivantBouge à peine1500 à 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

⚔️ L'affronter
Première mention
1576
A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010
Origine
Venetian (Italy)
Italie
Ce qui le provoque
Autre
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.
Comment on en devient un
A woman who died in the plague and was buried in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Comment il se déplace
Bouge à peine
The corpse was thought to act from the grave, not to walk.
Points faibles
  • a brick forced between the jaws

Quand est-il apparu pour la première fois ?

Monde antique
Moyen Âge
1500 à 1899
1900 à 1967
1968 à 1999
2000 à 2009
2010 à aujourd'hui
1576

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

notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

1

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

2

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

3

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

5

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

Sources

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

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