Medieval child ‘vampire burial’ exhumed near Polish cathedral ‘The burial clearly shows signs of anti-vampire practices, which were aimed at stopping the dead from rising again.’ Andrew Paul ...

In medieval Europe, people believed that a person's soul did not pass on to the afterlife immediately once the body died. Instead, the soul departed only when the body had rotted away 40 days later.

Unearthed: The Medieval 'vampire' skeleton buried with an iron stake through its chest to stop it waking up at the witching hour The skeleton is of 35-40 year old male from the 13th or 14th century ...

This is not the first medieval vampire burial researchers have found in Croatia. Sve o Arheologiji also reported that another was found in 2024 in the Old Town district of Pakrac, a few miles ...

Likewise, archaeologists have found several 'vampire' burials in Poland including the body of an 18-year-old girl pinned to her grave with a sickle and a padlock to prevent her returning.

The remains were consistent with anti-vampire rituals practiced in medieval Europe at the time. Jam Press/Lubelski Wojewódzki K “Burying with the face to the ground, cutting off the head or ...

Travel How to Bury a Medieval Child Vampire LIFE HACKS Apparently with an egg-shaped stone stuffed in its mouth, according to a new archaeological discovery. Candida Moss ...

Experts have discovered an unusual medieval burial that shows evidence of "anti-vampire" measures being taken. The bizarre archaeological discovery was made at a site on Góra Chełmska, a ridge ...

The remains of a 17th-century "vampire" woman was unearthed in Poland wearing a painful neck trap meant to stop the body from rising.

Archaeologists excavating a Medieval cemetery site in Kałdus, Poland, recently discovered hundreds of graves -- among them, they found 14 anti-vampire burials. Some of these people were ...