People who buried the dead feared that they would be resurrected.
In the Polish village of Pien, in a cemetery, archaeologists discovered the remains of the bodies of a woman and child buried in the 17th century. To prevent them from rising from the dead, the bodies were chained to the coffin.
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The woman had a padlock on her leg and a sickle on her neck, indicating that she was a “vampire.” A child of six or seven years old with a triangular iron lock under his foot was buried face down. After burial, the child’s grave was desecrated and all bones were removed except the legs.
“This is a cemetery for exiles who were undoubtedly feared in death, and perhaps even in life. They were suspected of contact with evil spirits, and they also behaved differently,” said Dariusz Polinski, a medieval burial researcher at the university. Nicolaus Copernicus in Torun.
In some burials, archaeologists have discovered other methods that were used in the 17th century to prevent the resurrection of the dead.
“There were also a large number of graves with stones that were supposed to protect against the deceased and were placed in different places, for example on the elbow, on the larynx or on the neck,” said Dariusz Polinski.
Let us remind you that in the Ternopil region, archaeologists found a burial place of victims of the Volyn tragedy.
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