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Vampire of Venice

Er numnà: Lazzaretto Nuovo skeleton, vampire woman of Venice
Folclore e mitusNunmortSa mova strusch1500 fin 1899

The 'Vampire of Venice' is the skeleton of a plague victim found with a brick wedged in her mouth. Her excavator argued that she had been taken for a shroud-eating corpse of the kind German folklore calls a Nachzehrer, and silenced with the brick. Other anthropologists reject the reading, and the dispute was aired in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. Whether or not the brick was deliberate, the case shows how hard such beliefs are to prove from bones alone.12

Al cumbat
Documentà l'emprima giada
1576
A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010
Origin
Venetian (Italy)
Italia
Tge che chaschuna quai
Auter
According to the excavator, gravediggers reopening the plague pit took a corpse whose shroud had rotted through at the mouth for one that was feeding and spreading the disease.
Co ch'ins daventa in
A woman who died in the plague and was buried in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Co ch'el sa mova
Sa mova strusch
The corpse was thought to act from the grave, not to walk.
Puncts flaivels
  • a brick forced between the jaws

Cura è el cumparì l'emprima giada?

AnticaTemp medieval1500 fin 18991900 fin 19671968 fin 19992000 fin 20092010 fin oz1576

A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010

notizias da champ

Tge che las funtaunas din

1

The 1576 plague killed up to 50,000 people in Venice, close to a third of the city12

2

Forensic anthropologist Matteo Borrini proposed that the brick was a form of exorcism12

3

He called it possibly the first vampire burial identified by archaeology12

4

Simona Minozzi of the University of Pisa dismissed the idea, arguing the brick fell into a gaping jaw by chance12

5

Critics add that the shroud-eater legend is German and not documented in Italy; Borrini replied that Venice was a crossroads for such beliefs12

Funtaunas

  1. 'Vampire' plague victim spurs gruesome debate - NBC News
  2. Nachzehrer - Wikipedia

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