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Lugnano child burial

Tamén chamado: Vampire of Lugnano, Necropolis of the Children
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeMundo antigo

At Lugnano in Teverina, a Roman-era cemetery for infants and children produced burials in which the bodies had been weighed down or had stones set in their mouths. The excavators interpret these as steps taken against the dead rising. The graves are far older than any written vampire tradition. They suggest that fear of the returning corpse, and the physical means of preventing it, were already present in late antique Italy.1

Á batalla!
Primeiro rexistro
450
A 5th-century children's cemetery at Lugnano in Teverina
Orixe
Late Roman (Italy)
Italia
Que o causa
Nunca se explica
The reason these children were feared is not recorded.
Puntos débiles
  • a stone forced into the mouth after death
  • stones weighing down the hands and feet

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigoIdade MediaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 ata hoxe450

A 5th-century children's cemetery at Lugnano in Teverina

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

1

The site is known as the Children's Necropolis1

2

One child was buried with a rock placed in its mouth1

3

Another, a girl, had stones laid on her hands and feet1

4

Archaeologists read the measures as attempts to stop the dead child returning1

5

Rocks over the body and objects in the mouth are among the anti-revenant measures recorded across Europe1

Fontes

  1. Vampire burial - Wikipedia

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