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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“CHILD VAMPIRE GRAVE FOUND IN POLAND” #WeirdDarkness #BonusBite

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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IN THIS EPISODE: The child's body was found face down and padlocked by the ankle, both practices intended to discourage and prevent a return from the grave.

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From all that's interesting.com.

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This 17th century child's grave was just discovered in Poland with several anti-vampire countermeasures, written by Austin Harvey.

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Near the village of Pien Poland, archaeologists from Nicholas Copernicus University, CU, recently uncovered the remains of a 17th century vampire child

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buried face down with an anti- vampire padlock around its ankle.

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As the mirror reported, Archaeology tie vampire padlock around its ankle.

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As the mirror reported, archaeologists believe the child was likely aged around 5 to 7 at the time

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of their death and padlocked as part of a superstitious belief that it would prevent the dead from rising from their grave.

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Darius Polinsky, an archaeologist involved in the excavation,

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noted that superstitious families would often place security measures like padlocks and

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sickles on the bodies of dead relatives as vampire hysteria peaked in Poland.

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The padlock under the foot symbolizes the closing of a stage of life and is meant to protect against the return of the deceased, which was probably feared.

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Such practices place by the superstitious. Among these was burying the dead face down so the deceased

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