National Geographic has released a pic and story on a discovery from a plague burial on the island of Lazzaretto Nuovo near Venice, which suggests that one of the plague victims was considered to be a vampire / undead and was neutralised by a large brick in the mouth (very much in the same way that Jack Straw could be neutralised by a large brick in the mouth I guess)... apparently an age-old exorcism technique aimed at preventing the undead from 'shroud-chewing' which was how they were perceived to spread pestilence.
Fascinating stuff and a striking photo. Full info here...
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Argh, the evil of superstition.
Like all the "witches" they threw off cliffs and drowned in masses, figuring that "If they are witches, they'll survive and we know for sure (and then try to kill them again somehow?) and when they die, oh well, our bad".
Sometimes I wished there really would have been such thing and the alleged witches and vampires and werwolves and whatnot would have come back and started going all Halo on the sorry asses of Mr. and Mrs. Ignoramus. :/
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