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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.
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 ...
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
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.
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 ]
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]
The “vampire,” christened Zosia by experts, was only 18 years old at her time of death, around 350 years ago. The 18-year-old was only one of around 100 skeletons that were found in a field ...
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.