Aug 14, 2023 20:00:00

A corpse of a 'vampire child' with a padlock attached to his feet to prevent resurrection can be found

From a 17th century cemetery near

Bydgoszcz in central Poland, the body of a child buried face down with an iron padlock on his foot was excavated. The padlock is believed to have been attached to prevent the corpse from reviving, and the media reports that ``the body of a vampire child was excavated''.

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This time, the child's body excavated from the cemetery in Pien village near Vidgoszcz was found only 1.5m away from the body of the 'female vampire' excavated in 2022. The body excavated in 2022 was buried with a sickle around the neck, and a padlock was also attached to the big toe.

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The excavation team first discovered a triangular padlock and reported that the next day they discovered the body of a child with a padlock attached. The child was buried face down and is believed to have been about 5 to 7 years old when he died in the 17th century.

The following photos are of the padlocks excavated this time.

Padlocks were attached to the legs of the corpse. At that time, it was customary to fix the corpse to the ground by attaching a padlock to prevent the corpse from reviving and harming living humans. 'The padlock under your feet is a symbol of the end of a stage in life, and the dreaded resurrection of a corpse,' said Dariusz Poliński, an archaeologist at

Nicolaus Copernicus University and an excavation leader. It is to protect ', he commented.

A padlock different from the one discovered this time was also found in the cemetery, but only scattered remains were found in the surrounding area.

Mr. Poliński has been leading the cemetery excavation survey in Pien village for several years, and in the latest excavation survey, he said that he unearthed 13 graves including the bodies of 'children of vampires'. Archaeologists believe that the cemetery is located in a different location than the usual cemeteries on the church grounds, and that many bodies were buried in ways that deviated from normal burial practices. I believe it was a burial place for 'people who were rejected by society.'

Those buried in non-traditional cemeteries may have been too poor to afford a church burial, or they may have been 'abandoned souls' who were shunned by society. For example, it is speculated that the `` vampire woman '' found in 2022 was wealthy from the clothes she wore, and it is believed that the reason she was buried in this cemetery was not her economic condition.

The women and children unearthed in 2022 are widely called 'vampires' because of their special burial customs that prevent the resurrection of the corpse, but the concept of a modern vampire was born. is said to have been after the two were buried.