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Shoemaker of Breslau

Era ayitibwa: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaAbafu abalamuOkufa obubi oba okuziikibwa obubi1500 okutuuka 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

Lwanyisa
Yasooka okuwandiikibwa
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Gy'ava
Silesian (German)
Polandi
Ekikireeta
Okufa obubi oba okuziikibwa obubi
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Amagezi
Amagezi matono
Ebifo ebinafu
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Yasooka ddi okulabika?

Ensi ey'eddaEmirembe egya wakati1500 okutuuka 18991900 okutuuka 19671968 okutuuka 19992000 okutuuka 20092010 okutuuka leero1591

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

ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

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

Ensibuko

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

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

Omulembe gwe gumu: 1500 okutuuka 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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