The remains of a female "vampire" from 16th-century Venice. Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of a female "vampire" from 16th-century Venice, buried with a brick in her mouth to prevent her feasting on plague victims. Matteo Borrini, a forensic anthropologist from the University of Florence, said the discovery was the first confirmation of a Medieval belief that vampires were behind the spread of epidemics, such as the Black Death.
(Photo: Reuters)
1 posted on
06/06/2012 3:52:49 AM PDT by
Renfield
To: Renfield
"Dimitrov said that "vampires" were often aristocrats and clerics." Things haven't changed much, have they?
2 posted on
06/06/2012 3:53:57 AM PDT by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
“buried with a brick in her mouth to prevent her feasting on plague victims”
Not to mention shot in the head. Looks like a 9mm...
4 posted on
06/06/2012 4:21:48 AM PDT by
BigCinBigD
(...Was that okay?)
To: Renfield
"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy vampire out," Clinton said. "That's a good-looking mummy vampire."--Bill Clinton
5 posted on
06/06/2012 4:44:32 AM PDT by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Renfield
I have seen enough movies to know how this will end. One of the lab technicians will pull the stake out of a corpse’s chest, go to work with his back toward the remains, and . . .
6 posted on
06/06/2012 4:59:05 AM PDT by
Pollster1
(A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
To: Renfield
Early evidence of the Zombie Apocalypse?
Or a better love story than “Twilight”?
7 posted on
06/06/2012 4:59:48 AM PDT by
Old Sarge
(RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
To: Renfield
9 posted on
06/06/2012 5:19:44 AM PDT by
bgill
To: Renfield
With a name like Renfield, I’m not surprised you would post a vampire thread. But that said, I thought only a wooden stake through the heart would work.
14 posted on
06/06/2012 7:20:59 AM PDT by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
To: Renfield; Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono
More than 100 "vampire" corpses have been dug out from graves across Bulgaria during historic excavations, according to the country's archaeologists. Bozhidar Dimitrov, head of the National History Museum in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, said on Tuesday that Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Middle Ages pierced through the chest with iron rods to keep them from turning into the undead.
"They were immobilized by this simple iron rod I hold in my hand..."
18 posted on
06/06/2012 5:56:05 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
To: Renfield
Dimitrov said that "vampires" were often aristocrats and clerics. At least the Socialists weren't accusing them of being "witches". That would have be an unfounded hysteria. Even today, we hear the evils of Capitalism and the Church...
19 posted on
06/06/2012 5:59:08 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
To: Renfield
Eastern Europe has the creepiest myths, legends and superstitions than anyplace else in the West.
To: Renfield
My first thought upon seeing that image was “I thought the article said there were no women.”
23 posted on
06/07/2012 5:39:51 PM PDT by
null and void
(Day 1234 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
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