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Shoemaker of Breslau

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatDee wu bon walla suul gu baaxul1500 ba 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

Xeexal ko
Jëkk a bindu
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Cosaan
Silesian (German)
Poloñ
Lan moo ko waral
Dee wu bon walla suul gu baaxul
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Naka ngay doone benn
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Xel
Am na tuuti xel
Fi mu néewe doole
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Àddina su yàggDiggu jamono1500 ba 18991900 ba 19671968 ba 19992000 ba 20092010 ba tey1591

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

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Li sours yi wax

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

Sours yi

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

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

Benn jamono: 1500 ba 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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