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This body found in a cemetery in Drawsko, Poland, is also thought to be a "vampire" burial. The body was one of six that had so-called "deviant" burials in the cemetery buried between the 17th and ...
Zosia's was Grave No. 75 at the unmarked cemetery in Pien, outside the northern city of Bydgoszcz. Among the other bodies found at the site was a "vampire" child, buried face down and similarly ...
The skeleton of Zosia, a woman buried as a vampire, lies in a grave in Pien, Poland, August 2022. / Credit: Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun/Handout via REUTERS
Gliwice, Poland, undated [9] Medieval cemetery site in Kałdus, Poland [10] A 17th-century burial of a woman in a graveyard in Pień, Poland. The corpse had a padlock around the toe and a scythe positioned in such a way that if the corpse had risen from the grave, the scythe would have severed its throat. [11] Anti-vampire burial from Sanok
A partially-destroyed grave (later numbered burial number 3a) was found in 1987. It contained the remains of a person who had died before reaching 25 years old. No burial goods or wooden structures were found. The skeleton was incomplete, missing some leg bones and right hand bones. The skull was found between the femurs.
Powązki Cemetery (Polish pronunciation: [pɔˈvɔ̃skʲi]; Polish: Cmentarz Powązkowski), also known as Stare Powązki (English: Old Powązki), is a historic necropolis located in Wola district, in the western part of Warsaw, Poland. It is the most famous cemetery in the city and one of the oldest, having been established in 1790.
Two recently unearthed children's skeletons showed characteristics of ancient anti-vampire burials meant to prevent the dead from exiting the grave,
When the tomb was opened, the team found rotting wooden coffins and the remains of Casimir and Elizabeth. [12] The restoration work was then carried out and, once it had been completed, Casimir and Elizabeth were re-interred in a ceremony held in the cathedral on 18 September 1973, [10] with Archbishop Wojtyła conducting the service. [13]