03-13-2009, 06:47 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
the article is about how to kill a vampire, nothing at all about scientific evidence of brutal murder/crime
amazing.
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From the looks of the article, it wasn't murder. Rather, they believed decomposing corpses to still be alive.
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Gravediggers reopening mass graves would sometimes come across bodies bloated by gas, with hair still growing, and blood seeping from their mouths and believe them to be still alive.
The shrouds used to cover the faces of the dead were often decayed by bacteria in the mouth, revealing the corpse's teeth, and vampires became known as "shroud-eaters".
According to medieval medical and religious texts, the "undead" were believed to spread pestilence in order to suck the remaining life from corpses until they acquired the strength to return to the streets again.
"To kill the vampire you had to remove the shroud from its mouth, which was its food like the milk of a child, and put something uneatable in there," said Borrini. "It's possible that other corpses have been found with bricks in their mouths, but this is the first time the ritual has been recognised."
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