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Shoemaker of Breslau

Também chamado: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Folclore e mitosMorto-vivoUma morte ou um enterro mal feitoDe 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

⚔️ Combatê-lo
Primeiro registo
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Origem
Silesian (German)
Polónia
O que o causa
Uma morte ou um enterro mal feito
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Como te tornas um
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Inteligência
Alguma inteligência
Pontos fracos
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Quando apareceu pela primeira vez?

Mundo antigo
Idade Média
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 até hoje
1591

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

notas de campo

O que dizem as fontes

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

Fontes

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

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