[PotatoHeadMick]

Of interest to your group I think.

[Perdogg]

ping

[Jet Jaguar]

[max americana]

> “Wedging a rock or brick into the mouth of a suspected vampire was a way of preventing the person from feeding on the bodies of other plague victims”

That sucks.

[Big_Monkey]

10,000 years from now, archeologist will be studying the strange practice of placing massive globs of silicone in the female chest. <P.

“What could they have been warding off?” they’ll ask themselves.

[anniegetyourgun]

How do they know the skull is that of a vampire? Perhaps she was just the Monica Lewinsky of her day....

[RDTF]

creepy

[SunkenCiv]

Rare Magic Inscription on Human Skull
Biblical Archaeology Review 35:02 | Mar/Apr 2009 | Dan Levene
Posted on 03/01/2009 5:44:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2196982/posts

Skeleton of village ‘witch’ to be re-buried
[ a good bit o’ spin in the headline ]
Kent Online | March 2009 | Keyan Milanian
Posted on 03/06/2009 9:34:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2200784/posts

[uglybiker]

She was from the government.
And she only wanted to he'p you.

[hellbender]

How do they know her husband didn’t just get fed up with her talking too much, and decided to plug her pie-hole?

[Gator113]

Nationalized healthcare from the Middle Ages?

[ZULU]

Back then there were no Certificates of Death or post-mortems. In some cases, unfortunate people passed into a coma, were declared dead, buried without embalming and later woke up and tried to escape only to be done in by grave diggers.