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Vampire of Venice

Detto anche: Lazzaretto Nuovo skeleton, vampire woman of Venice
Folklore e mitiNon mortoSi muove appenaDal 1500 al 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

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Prima attestazione
1576
A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010
Origine
Venetian (Italy)
Italia
Cosa lo causa
Altro
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.
Come lo si diventa
A woman who died in the plague and was buried in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Come si muove
Si muove appena
The corpse was thought to act from the grave, not to walk.
Punti deboli
  • a brick forced between the jaws

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
1576

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

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

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

Fonti

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

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