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Pień padlocked burial

També anomenat: Pień vampire, vampire of Pień

The Pień burial is a 17th-century Polish grave in which a woman was interred with a sickle across her throat and a padlock on her foot. Archaeologists interpret both as measures to keep the dead from rising. It gives physical form to the precautions that folklore prescribes against the upiór and strzyga. The find was reported in 2022 and is usually described as a 'vampire' burial.12

Lluita-hi
Primer registre
1650
A 17th-century grave at Pień, reported in September 2022
Origen
Polish
Polònia
Què el causa
Mai explicat
Nothing is known of why the woman was feared.
Punts febles
  • a sickle laid across the neck so that it would cut the throat if the body sat up
  • a padlock fastened round a toe

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A 17th-century grave at Pień, reported in September 2022

notes de camp

Què diuen les fonts

1

The burial is of a woman12

2

The blade was positioned edge-down over the throat12

3

The padlock is understood as 'locking' the dead in place12

4

It is one of several Polish graves with sickles, including a group at Drawsko whose vampire interpretation has been contested12

5

Polish practice against the walking dead also included aspen stakes, stones on the body and burial face down12

Fonts

  1. Vampire burial - Wikipedia
  2. Upi%C3%B3r - Wikipedia

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Folklore de les mateixes terres

Mateixa època: De 1500 a 1899

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