
Drakelow revenants
The Drakelow case is among the earliest detailed walking-dead reports from England. Two fugitive peasants die suddenly, return carrying their own coffins and bring a deadly sickness to the village of Drakelow. With episcopal permission the bodies are dug up, beheaded and their hearts cut out and burned. The procedure, especially the head laid between the legs, matches so-called deviant burials that archaeologists find across medieval Europe.12
- exhumation
- decapitation, with the heads placed between the legs
- tearing out the hearts and burning them
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Events of about 1090, recorded by Abbot Geoffrey of Burton in the early 12th century
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