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Shoemaker of Breslau

Imadziwikanso kuti: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Nthano ndi zikhulupiriroWakufa wamoyoImfa kapena maliro oipa1500 mpaka 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

Amenyane!
Inalembedwa koyamba
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Kochokera
Silesian (German)
Poland
Chimayambitsa
Imfa kapena maliro oipa
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Momwe umasandukira zombie
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Nzeru
Nzeru pang'ono
Malo ofooka
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Inaoneka liti koyamba?

Dziko lakaleNyengo Zapakati1500 mpaka 18991900 mpaka 19671968 mpaka 19992000 mpaka 20092010 mpaka lero1591

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

zolemba za kumunda

Zimene magwero akunena

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

Magwero

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

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Nthano zochokera ku mayiko omwewo

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

Nyengo yomweyo: 1500 mpaka 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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