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Shoemaker of Breslau

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewOwuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie1500 kɔsi 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

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1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Mfiase
Silesian (German)
Poland
Deɛ ɛde ba
Owuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

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Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ1591

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

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Deɛ fibea no ka

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

Fibea

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

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Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

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

Berɛ koro: 1500 kɔsi 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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