So-called vampire found in mass grave
Sat, Mar 7, 2009
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Whether it’s due to novels and movies or some morbid fascination, more and more people seem to be fascinated about vampires. Still, when people first started to believe in them, things were quite different from now.
For example, instead of drinking blood, it was believed that they chewed on their shrouds of people that died, and at that time, it seemed that was how the plague was spreading (or at least it was an idea). To prevent them from doing this, grave diggers put a brick in their mouth. This was probably caused by the fact that sometimes blood is expelled from the mouths of the dead, which causes shroud to sink inwards and tear.
Now Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found such a skeleton with a brick in its mouth while excavating some graves of plague victims from the Middle Ages near Venice. According to his claims, this the first vampire that was examined forensically.
Still, there are those who oppose this idea, such as Peer Moore-Jansen of Wichita State University in Kansas. He claims he has found similar skeletons in Poland, and he says that while this finding is in fact very exciting, “claiming it as the first vampire is a little ridiculous”. The response was short but firm: it’s the earliest grave to show “exorcism evidence against vampires”.
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Andrei is no scientist, but from an early age, he has been fascinated by science; that's why he went to college, and signed up for Geophysics. Feeling that there's a huge gap between science and average people, he rallied TP, started ZME Science, and gave it a green twist too.
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March 9th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
How can anyone believe that finding a skeleton that has a Vampire ward is proof that the person was a Vampire? It’s like finding someone with a stake through their chest and saying, “He died like a Vampire is supposed to, and therefore is.” A normal person can have a brick put in their mouth for burial. It’s ludicrous whether you believe in Vampires or not.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
I also agree with Aaron. Its stupid just to asume that because he has a brick in his mouth he is one. But I also find it interesting and mind blowing in a kind of funny way. That someone would go as far as to insist that the person was a vamoire just to maybe prove that vampires are real. Why can’t we just get it into are brains that an imaginative and amazing storyteller created the idea of vampires, and the idea carried on down into our generation and century. =]. I guess you can look at it like the game that i think is called phone. You have a bunch of people in a line and you say something and they carry it on down to the last person. Then when you ask the last person what you said its COMPLETELY different then what you said. I guess that’s how the concept of vampires started. I can’t wait until someone thinks they found the REAL big foot. [grin!].