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Vampire of Venice

E boetse e bitswa: Lazzaretto Nuovo skeleton, vampire woman of Venice
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE batla e sa sisinyehe1500 ho isa 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

Di lwantshe
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
1576
A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010
Tshimoloho
Venetian (Italy)
Italy
Se e bakang
Tse ding
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.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A woman who died in the plague and was buried in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E batla e sa sisinyehe
The corpse was thought to act from the grave, not to walk.
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • a brick forced between the jaws

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 kajeno1576

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

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

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

Mehlodi

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

Ntlha e nngwe le e nngwe leqepheng lena e tswa mehloding ena, e ngotswe ka mantswe a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelle ho [email protected].

Fepa letshwele. Ha ho dipapatso, ha ho disebedisi tsa ho latela, e lefellwa ke motho a le mong. Tjhelete ya teboho e e boloka inthaneteng.Fana ka tjhelete ya teboho

Ditshomo tsa dinaha tseo

Erichtho's reanimated soldierRoman (literary), 61Lugnano child burialLate Roman (Italy), 450

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