Read more: A 1988 warning about climate change was mostly right In 2019, US researchers dug up a ‘vampire’ dating to the 19th century. The researchers believe it may have been put there as part of a ritual to stop the 10-year-old rising from the grave, at least 1,500 years ago.ĭavid Soren, of the University of Arizona, said: "Locally, they're calling it the 'Vampire of Lugnano. In 2018, researchers unearthed something truly grisly in a Roman site known as the Cemetery of the Babies – a child buried with a rock inside its mouth. Researchers dig up the skeleton of the female 'vampire'.
The practice of burying people with ritual elements to prevent people returning from the grave dates back to Roman times if not earlier. Read more: Record-breaking gathering of vampires in Britain Poliński said: "Other ways to protect against the return of the dead include cutting off the head or legs, placing the deceased face down to bite into the ground, burning them, and smashing them with a stone.” Professor Poliński said: "The sickle was not laid flat but placed on the neck in such a way that if the deceased had tried to get up the head would have been cut off or injured.”īurial practices such as this became used in Poland after fears over vampires returning from the grave, the Daily Mail reported. The skeleton was wearing a silk cap and had a protruding tooth. The remains were found by a team led by Professor Dariusz Poliński, from Nicolaus Copernicus University.
The 'vampire' was found with a sickle across her neck (Mirosław Blicharski)Ī female ‘vampire’ buried in a 17th-century Polish graveyard has been unearthed by researchers, with a sickle placed carefully across her neck to stop her rising from the dead.
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