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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
Professor Dariusz Polinski of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun said this type of practice became common throughout Poland in the 17th century in response to a reported vampire epidemic.
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.
A strzyga is a usually female demon similar to vampire in Slavic (and especially Polish) folklore. People who were born with two hearts and two souls, and two sets of teeth (the second one barely visible) were believed to be strzygi. [6] [2] Somnambulics or people without armpit hair could also be seen as ones. [9]
If a person thought to be an upiór died, or if someone's grave was believed to be an upiór's grave, a vampire burial was performed. The head could be cut off and put between the legs of the corpse, [ 10 ] the corpse could be burned, [ 18 ] nailed to the coffin, [ 10 ] or repositioned to lie face-down.
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 ...
A vjesci (Polish: wieszczy) is a vampire in Polish folklore. According to legend, some people are born with the destiny of becoming vjesci, discernable by a caul located on the newborn's head. In order to prevent these individuals from becoming a vjesci, the caul was removed, dried, ground and fed to the person on their seventh birthday. [ 1 ]