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Shoemaker of Breslau

Detto anche: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Folklore e mitiNon mortoUna brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativaDal 1500 al 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

⚔️ Combatterlo
Prima attestazione
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Origine
Silesian (German)
Polonia
Cosa lo causa
Una brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativa
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Come lo si diventa
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Intelligenza
Un po' di intelligenza
Punti deboli
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Quando è comparso per la prima volta?

Mondo antico
Medioevo
Dal 1500 al 1899
Dal 1900 al 1967
Dal 1968 al 1999
Dal 2000 al 2009
Dal 2010 a oggi
1591

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

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

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

Fonti

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

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Folklore delle stesse terre

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Stessa epoca: Dal 1500 al 1899

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