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Shoemaker of Breslau

E boetse e bitswa: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengLefu le lebe kapa lepato le lebe1500 ho isa 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

Di lwantshe
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Tshimoloho
Silesian (German)
Poland
Se e bakang
Lefu le lebe kapa lepato le lebe
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Bohlale
Bohlale bo itseng
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

Lefatshe la boholoholoMehla e Bohareng1500 ho isa 18991900 ho isa 19671968 ho isa 19992000 ho isa 20092010 ho fihlela kajeno1591

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

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

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

Mehlodi

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

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Ditshomo tsa dinaha tseo

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

Mehla e tshwanang: 1500 ho isa 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
Fepa letshweleFana ka tjhelete ya teboho