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Shoemaker of Breslau

Ook bekend as: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Volksverhale en mitesOndood'n Slegte dood of begrafnis1500 tot 1899

The Shoemaker of Breslau is one of the fullest early modern accounts of a town proceeding against a walking dead man. After his concealed suicide in 1591, residents of Breslau, now Wrocław, complained for months of a suffocating night visitor, and the magistrates twice had the body dug up. Only complete destruction, with the head and limbs removed and the heart burned, was held to have ended it. The case reached English readers through the philosopher Henry More, who used it as evidence for the reality of spirits.1

Veg daarteen
Eerste opgeteken
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Oorsprong
Silesian (German)
Pole
Wat dit veroorsaak
'n Slegte dood of begrafnis
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Hoe jy een word
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Intelligensie
'n Bietjie intelligensie
Swak plekke
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Wanneer het dit eerste verskyn?

Antieke wêreldMiddeleeue1500 tot 18991900 tot 19671968 tot 19992000 tot 20092010 tot vandag1591

Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)

veldnotas

Wat die bronne sê

1

The town council investigated the rumours and the widow confessed to the cover-up1

2

His apparition pressed on sleepers and left bruises and finger marks1

3

Exhumed on 18 April 1592 after about eight months, the body was intact, with supple joints and the throat wound still open1

4

The haunting went on after he was moved to unhallowed ground1

5

At the second exhumation the corpse was swollen; the heart was found fresh1

Bronne

  1. Vampire Forensics, chapter 6 (Mark Collins Jenkins) - Erenow

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Volksverhale uit dieselfde lande

NachzehrerGerman, 1800StrzygaPolish and Silesian, 1863UpiórSlavic, 1100Pień padlocked burialPolish, 1650VjesciKashubian (northern Poland)

Selfde era: 1500 tot 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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