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16th-Century ‘Vampire’ Buried With Brick in Her Mouth — to Stop Blood-Sucker From Eating the Dead
New York Post ^ | March 22, 2024 | Alex Mitchell

Posted on 03/22/2024 4:55:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Scientists have recreated the face of a 16th-century woman with a brick jammed into her mouth, an object apparently wedged there to stop her from eating the dead — as Italian locals believed she was a vampire.

The spooky story begins at a mass grave discovered on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, a location used as a bubonic plague quarantine in the late 1500s and 1600s. In 2006, archeological studies found some bodies that were buried centuries ago.

“When they supposedly identified a vampire, one of those responsible for the plague according to popular myth at the time, they introduced the stone [brick] as a protective element, preventing it from feeding and also from infecting other people,” forensic researcher Cícero Moraes told South West News Service of the bizarre discovery.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; autopsy; brick; donatefreerepublic; godsgravesglyphs; joindu; lazzarettonuovo; middleages; seeme; superstition; superstitions; trollknowsnothing; trollsknownothing; vampire; venice; weseeyou
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1 posted on 03/22/2024 4:55:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

How did they know it was a woman?


2 posted on 03/22/2024 4:57:43 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: nickcarraway

Ow, she’s a brick mouth
She’s mighty-mighty, just lettin’ it all hang out
She’s a brick mouth
That lady’s stacked and that’s a fact
Ain’t holding nothing back


3 posted on 03/22/2024 4:58:01 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: nickcarraway

Her name was found to be “Hillaria Rudhamania Celintoni”.


4 posted on 03/22/2024 4:58:49 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nickcarraway

“...they introduced the brick as a protective element, preventing it from feeding and also from infecting other people”

If only we could stuff a brick in Biden’s mouth to stop him from devouring us alive.


5 posted on 03/22/2024 5:00:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: nickcarraway

How long until this makes “Executed Today”!


6 posted on 03/22/2024 5:03:59 PM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: nickcarraway

So. Vampire gals don’t have arms? She can’t wake up and remove the brick.

I can just imagine her sayin’ ‘If I ever find out who put this brick in my mouth I’ll drink to the last drop’.

And that’s how Maxwell House got it’s slogan.


7 posted on 03/22/2024 5:04:41 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: ClearCase_guy

🤣


8 posted on 03/22/2024 5:07:50 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: aynrandfreak; CheshireTheCat
How long until this makes “Executed Today”!

Let's ask him…

9 posted on 03/22/2024 5:08:47 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: nickcarraway

She’s a witch!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rf71YotfykQ


10 posted on 03/22/2024 5:10:22 PM PDT by bwest
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To: nickcarraway

This can probably be blamed on some ancestor of Donald Trump.


11 posted on 03/22/2024 5:12:25 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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12 posted on 03/22/2024 5:15:13 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: nwrep
> Her name was found to be “Hillaria Rudhamania Celintoni”. <

Hillary is an evil being, to be sure. But I can’t envision her as a witch.
Oh, wait. Yes I can.


13 posted on 03/22/2024 5:15:36 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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People buried in plague time didn’t have any what-you-call embalming. The human mouth is rife with germs and disease. Corpses strewn along the roadside, awaiting mass burial, would start to rot, and most often the first sign of rotting was in the shroud over the corpse’s mouth. This led to a rumor of plague-killed dead trying to eat their way out of their shrouds. And then so on.

Not that there’s no such thing as the living dead who hunt by night, stalking your kids as they walk home in the dark after band practice. You thought you would be safe living two blocks from the school. HAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!


14 posted on 03/22/2024 5:15:48 PM PDT by Scarlett156 (#FREEDOM and our Constitutional Republic. )
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To: nwrep

Lol!


15 posted on 03/22/2024 5:17:19 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Leaning Right

No brick necessary for her. Just throw some water on her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UsrZSA3PPM


16 posted on 03/22/2024 5:21:13 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: VTenigma

They knew based on her pronouns.


17 posted on 03/22/2024 5:24:42 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ConservativeMind

I’m a chick.


18 posted on 03/22/2024 5:26:38 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Right, right, how dumb of me.


19 posted on 03/22/2024 5:55:08 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: nickcarraway

How do they know it was not just a husband that had listened to too much yammering and was fed up?


20 posted on 03/22/2024 6:18:49 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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