Therefore, by placing a brick in her mouth, it would keep the Nachzehrer from chewing their way out of the ground, and so protect the living from the disease. "And they were chewing their shroud inside their graves and spreading the plague in a sort of black magical way," These bodies were not completely dead and were captured by some demonic influence," said Borrini, describing the old beliefs. "What I found was that there was this tradition that said they were bodies of people believed to be responsible for spreading the plague around. It's more someone that is killing people from the grave before being able to then rise as a full vampire. While not much is known about her identity, archeologists confirmed that she died during a deadly outbreak of bubonic plague.īorrini, who was the lead scientist at the dig said: "I had to find an explanation for someone actually manipulating the body of a person with a deadly disease".Īfter uncovering that the woman was thought to be a Nachzehrer - a type of vampire in old European folklore - he said: "It's not the classical idea that the vampire is going out and sucking the blood of people. The woman - nicknamed 'Carmilla' - was found within a mass grave. Matteo Borrini, principal lecturer of forensic anthropology at the Liverpool John Moore University, discovered the body of a 16th century woman in Lazzaretto Nuovo, Venice with a brick shoved in her mouth. One way to distinguish whether or not a burial is one of a vampire is to look for something obstructing the mouth of the deceased - like a brick or stone.
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