Archaeologists uncovered the skeleton of a female vampire (Representational Image/Unsplash)
According to one report, archaeologists have found the skeletal remains of a “female vampire” from a 17th-century Polish cemetery. New York Post, The skeletal remains were discovered by a team headed by Professor Darius Polinski of Nicolaus Copernicus University. While excavating, archaeologists uncovered the skeleton of a female who was pinned to the ground with a sickle around her neck.
according to PostFarming tools popular in the 1600s were commonly used by superstitious Poles to try and deter a dead person from believing a vampire so that they could not come back from the dead.
It was told that the sickle was placed in such a way that if the deceased tried to get up, the head would have been cut off or injured. It was also found that the dead woman had a lock around her toe, symbolizing “the closure of a stage and the impossibility of returning”.
The dead woman was buried with a silk cap on her head, which was an object of luxury in the 17th century.
Smithsonian Magazine The report states that people in 11th-century Eastern Europe believed that “some people who had died would emerge from the grave as blood-sucking demons who terrorized the living”.
And during the 17th and 18th centuries, some very unusual burial practices became common in Poland in response to an alleged outbreak of “vampires”, Science Alert reported.
New York Post reported that the “female vampire” was found in Pien, located in the south of the country – seven years after the remains of five other alleged vampires were found in the city of Drusco, 130 miles (209 km) away.
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