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Shoemaker of Breslau

Також відомий як: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Фольклор і міфиНежитьПогана смерть або поховання1500–1899

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

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Перша згадка
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Походження
Silesian (German)
Польща
Що його викликає
Погана смерть або поховання
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Як стати одним із них
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Розум
Трохи розуму
Слабкі місця
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Коли він з'явився вперше?

Давній світ
Середньовіччя
1500–1899
1900–1967
1968–1999
2000–2009
2010 і донині
1591

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

польові нотатки

Що кажуть джерела

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

Джерела

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

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