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Shoemaker of Breslau

Rinonziwo: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Ngano nezvitendero zvekareVakafa vakamukaRufu rwakaipa kana kuvigwa kwakaipa1500 kusvika 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

Ita hondo
Kutanga kunyorwa
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Kwakabva
Silesian (German)
Poland
Chikonzero chacho
Rufu rwakaipa kana kuvigwa kwakaipa
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Kuti munhu anova zombie sei
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Njere
Njere shoma
Utera
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

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Nyika yekareNguva dzepakati1500 kusvika 18991900 kusvika 19671968 kusvika 19992000 kusvika 20092010 kusvika nhasi1591

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

zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

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

Zvinyorwa

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

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Ngano dzekunyika dzimwe chete

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

Nguva imwe chete: 1500 kusvika 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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