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Vampire of Venice

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: Lazzaretto Nuovo skeleton, vampire woman of Venice
Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatYënguwul lu dul tuuti1500 ba 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

Xeexal ko
Jëkk a bindu
1576
A burial in a mass grave from the Venice plague of 1576; the interpretation was published in 2010
Cosaan
Venetian (Italy)
Itali
Lan moo ko waral
Yeneen
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.
Naka ngay doone benn
A woman who died in the plague and was buried in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Naka lay yëngoo
Yënguwul lu dul tuuti
The corpse was thought to act from the grave, not to walk.
Fi mu néewe doole
  • a brick forced between the jaws

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Àddina su yàggDiggu jamono1500 ba 18991900 ba 19671968 ba 19992000 ba 20092010 ba tey1576

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

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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

Sours yi

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

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

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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