In an interesting recent discovery, archaeologists have discovered the remains of what they believe to be a 17th century “vampire child”. According to them, the vampire was buried face down and padlocked to the earth, and the villagers might have done it in an effort to ensure that the child doesn’t come back from the dead.
According to reports, the skeletal fragments indicate the child’s age between 5 and 7 years, who was found lying with a triangular padlock attached to one of the feet. According to the traditions of that time, such padlocks were used to secure a corpse in its grave.
The grave was found in Poland in a necropolis where hundreds of people have been buried over the centuries and where it is said that 100,000 people were buried. They were used to close things to make people believe that the child is not there anymore. ‘Necropolis’, which translates in Greek as ‘city of the dead’, is also where a female ‘vampire’ was found last year, who was buried with a padlock attached to her big toe.
According to archaeologists, they connected this practice with the anti-vampiric burial technique, which is common throughout Christian Europe since the 14th century.
The excavators added, “Such practices originated in folk beliefs and are sometimes described as anti-vampiric.”
Elaborating on this, archaeologist Dariusz Poliński, of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, said that the material placed under the feet “shows the end of life and is intended to protect it from ‘the return of the dead, which is probably frightening. ”
Records show that these rituals are believed to have been followed at a time when it was believed that when a person was buried face down, the dead fell to the ground and did not harm the living, Poliński said. Reports also say that about 30 companies have been discovered and archaeologists believe that people were afraid not only during their lives but also after they died and were buried in the area.
Poliński went on to say that during this period, people followed many measures to prevent the dead from returning, including keeping the faces of the dead, cutting off heads or feet, burning and even crushing them with stones. Poliński also said that he and his researchers discovered about 100 such graves in the cemetery. According to their records, the vampiric outbreak was linked to the death toll, which has no logical explanation to this day.
