“Shocking Discovery: ‘Vampire’ Woman Sealed Away with Sickle to Prevent Her From Rising Again!”
It seems Zosia wasn’t the only person to have been accused of being a vampire during her time period
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The 18-year-old was only one of around 100 skeletons that were found in a field outside the small village of Pień.
Approximately 30 of these graves had signs of being restrained, which led to the site’s infamous nickname of “Field of Vampires.”
Poliński said the cemetery was designed for people who had been “excluded from the community,” however, all the graves were left unmarked and there were no written records available about the bodies.
The faces of some corpses were turned down and some were weighed down with stones. In a few other bodies, coins were placed in their mouths.
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“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,” Poliński explained to Daily Mail.
Other graves included a partially exhumed child, a pregnant woman, a woman with advanced stages of syphilis, and a man with a child’s corpse by his feet.
Interestingly enough, however, Zoisa was the only one found with a sickle around her neck. Seeing the heavy restraints, experts believe she was most feared by those who killed her.
Commenters added their theories to the growing possibilities of what may have happened to Zoisa
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Some people dove deeper into the lore of vampires while others blamed the “ignorance” of the past villagers.
