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Shoemaker of Breslau

Gape e bidiwa: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengLoso kgotsa phitlho e e sa siamang1500 go ya go 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 kwadilwe la ntlha
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Tshimologo
Silesian (German)
Poland
Se se e bakang
Loso kgotsa phitlho e e sa siamang
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
O fetoga yone jang
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

E tlhagile la ntlha leng?

Lefatshe la bogologoloMotlha wa Bogare1500 go ya go 18991900 go ya go 19671968 go ya go 19992000 go ya go 20092010 go fitlha gompieno1591

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

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi 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

Metswedi

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

Ntlha nngwe le nngwe mo tsebeng e e tswa mo metsweding e, e kwadilwe ka mafoko a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelele kwa [email protected].

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

Motlha o o tshwanang: 1500 go ya go 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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