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Vampire of Venice

Gape e bidiwa: Lazzaretto Nuovo skeleton, vampire woman of Venice
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE batla e sa tshikinyege1500 go ya go 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 kwadilwe la ntlha
1576
A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010
Tshimologo
Venetian (Italy)
Itali
Se se e bakang
Tse dingwe
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.
O fetoga yone jang
A woman who died in the plague and was buried in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
E tsamaya jang
E batla e sa tshikinyege
The corpse was thought to act from the grave, not to walk.
Bokoa
  • a brick forced between the jaws

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 gompieno1576

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

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi 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

Metswedi

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

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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Dinaane tsa setso go tswa mo mafatsheng a le mangwe

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

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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