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Shoemaker of Breslau

Sidoo kale loo yaqaan: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Khuraafaad iyo ugaarsiDhintayDhimasho ama xabaalid xun1500 ilaa 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

Dagaal geli
Markii ugu horreysay ee la diiwaangeliyay
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Asal
Silesian (German)
Boolaand
Waxa sababa
Dhimasho ama xabaalid xun
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Sida aad mid u noqotid
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Caqli
Caqli yar
Meelaha daciifka ah
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Goorma ayuu markii ugu horreysay soo baxay?

Adduunka horeQarniyadii dhexe1500 ilaa 18991900 ilaa 19671968 ilaa 19992000 ilaa 20092010 ilaa maanta1591

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

qoraallada goobta

Waxa ilaha yidhaahdaan

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

Ilaha

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

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Khuraafaad ka yimid dhulalkaas

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

Isla xilligaas: 1500 ilaa 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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