“Shocking Discovery: ‘Vampire’ Woman Sealed Away with Sickle to Prevent Her From Rising Again!”
“It’s a common enough find across medieval European burial sites. Fear of the ‘undead’ returning was widespread,” wrote someone. “Local lore in Transylvania was very strong around this with the activities of Vlad the Impaler in the 14th century.”
Another theorized, “Sounds like she may have been an outsider who was very badly treated when she met her end and swore revenge so her abusers may have feared that she would return as a revenant to take revenge on them…”
“I’m so sorry for these poor people who were victims of such ignorance,” commented a third. “The one where they described the man with the child at his feet was particularly heartbreaking, people can be so horrible to each other for no reason other than ignorance.”
Fears surrounding the undead and vampires have been circulating for hundreds of years
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People have feared the undead ever since the 11th century, as told in Smithsonian Magazine, while vampire myths date back to the late 17th and 18th centuries.
The outlet writes, “A disturbing myth took hold across Eastern Europe: Some people who died would claw their way out of the grave as blood-sucking monsters that terrorized the living.
“Evidence of anti-vampire rituals — a metal rod hammered through a centuries-old skeleton, for instance — is widespread in the region.”
In other parts of Europe, particularly among Slavic people, the belief of these vampires became so widespread it induced mass hysteria and led to brutal executions.
