Wharram Percy mutilated dead

Tinatawag ding: Wharram Percy revenants

At the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy in Yorkshire, archaeologists identified human remains that had been beheaded, cut up and burned after death. The 2017 study by Historic England and the University of Southampton concluded that the likeliest explanation was fear of revenants. If so, it is physical evidence from England for the practices that chroniclers such as William of Newburgh describe. It shows ordinary villagers acting on the belief that corpses could rise.1 2

⚔️ Labanan ito

Unang naitala

1100

Bones dated to the 11th-14th centuries; analysed in a study published in 2017

Pinagmulan

Medieval English

United Kingdom

Ano ang sanhi

Hindi kailanman ipinaliwanag

Why these individuals were singled out is not known.

Mga kahinaan

decapitation
dismemberment
burning
breaking the long bones after death

Kailan ito unang lumitaw?

Sinaunang mundo

Gitnang Panahon

1500 hanggang 1899

1900 hanggang 1967

1968 hanggang 1999

2000 hanggang 2009

2010 hanggang ngayon

1100

Bones dated to the 11th-14th centuries; analysed in a study published in 2017

mga tala sa field

Ano ang sabi ng mga pinagmulan

137 broken bones from at least ten people, including two women and three children, were found in pits away from the churchyard1 2

Knife marks cluster around the head and neck, not where a butcher would cut for meat1 2

Isotope analysis of the teeth showed the dead had grown up locally, ruling out strangers1 2

The researchers, Simon Mays and Alistair Pike, judged an attempt to stop corpses walking the best fit for the evidence1 2

Famine cannibalism remains an alternative that has not been excluded1 2

The bones were excavated in 1963 and lay unstudied for decades1 2

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