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Shoemaker of Breslau

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniUkufa okubi okanye ukungcwatywa kakubi1500 ukuya ku-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

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Imvelaphi
Silesian (German)
IPoland
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ukufa okubi okanye ukungcwatywa kakubi
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

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Ihlabathi lamanduloAmaxesha Aphakathi1500 ukuya ku-18991900 ukuya ku-19671968 ukuya ku-19992000 ukuya ku-20092010 ukuza kuthi ga namhlanje1591

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

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Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

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

Imithombo

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

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Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

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

Ixesha elinye: 1500 ukuya ku-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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