‘Pure astonishment’: Female ‘vampire’ skeleton in Poland shocks scientists
The remains of a ‘female vampire’ have been unearthed by archaeologists at a cemetery in Poland, according to a report in the New York Article. Scientists discovered the remains of a woman with a sickle all-around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot.
The acquiring was produced at a village of Pień in Poland. The sickle was meant to protect against a deceased human being considered to be a vampire from returning from the lifeless, researchers said.
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The exploration group was led by Professor Dariusz Polinski of the Nicolaus Copernicus College in Torun. The staff mentioned the stays also had a silk headdress – woven with gold or silver thread – and that the padlock and sickle are linked to 17th-century superstitions, both of which ‘may have shielded from the return of the deceased’.
The ‘anti-vampiric’ exercise of placing the blade on the neck, researchers explained, was finished so the head would be slash off if the deceased attempted to ‘get up’, a Usa Currently report claimed.
The apply grew to become widespread all over Poland in the 17th century, as a response to a documented vampire epidemic. Authorities are arranging further analysis at the cemetery and a survey of the full area.
In an job interview with CBS News, Professor Polinski said the come across left him speechless. “Such a discovery, specially listed here in Poland, is astonishing, specifically now — hundreds of years afterwards. Pure astonishment.”
The remains of a ‘female vampire’ have been unearthed by archaeologists at a cemetery in Poland, according to a report in the New York Article. Scientists discovered the remains of a woman with a sickle all-around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot.
The acquiring was produced at a village of Pień in Poland. The sickle was meant to protect against a deceased human being considered to be a vampire from returning from the lifeless, researchers said.
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The exploration group was led by Professor Dariusz Polinski of the Nicolaus Copernicus College in Torun. The staff mentioned the stays also had a silk headdress – woven with gold or silver thread – and that the padlock and sickle are linked to 17th-century superstitions, both of which ‘may have shielded from the return of the deceased’.
The ‘anti-vampiric’ exercise of placing the blade on the neck, researchers explained, was finished so the head would be slash off if the deceased attempted to ‘get up’, a Usa Currently report claimed.
The apply grew to become widespread all over Poland in the 17th century, as a response to a documented vampire epidemic. Authorities are arranging further analysis at the cemetery and a survey of the full area.
In an job interview with CBS News, Professor Polinski said the come across left him speechless. “Such a discovery, specially listed here in Poland, is astonishing, specifically now — hundreds of years afterwards. Pure astonishment.”