The bones of the six- to seven-year-old were buried facedown with a triangular iron padlock under one foot. The remains date from an era that viewed ghosts, zombies and other supernatural entities as being as real as humans.
    • TwanHE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      What’s fucked up about chaining up a corpse. Of course it doesn’t help anything but there is also no harm in it.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Someone once asked me if I’d like some glacier-covered land in Alaska. I said “no, but I would like some non-glacier-covered land in Alaska later, so yeah”

  • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
    132·
    1 year ago

    Humans believing in fantasy beings to the point of murder…how dumb…

    …wait a minute…

  • saltnotsugar@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    “Look it might be a waste of a lock, but I don’t want some vampire kid killing me. Don’t let your last words be, ‘I should have listened to Jeeeeeeff!’”

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The headline is somewhat ambiguous, and seems to imply that the child was chained there to prevent a vampire buried below from rising. Knowing the child was the supposed vampire makes this a little less grim, because I was picturing some poor kid with his leg shackled to a headstone and left to die.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      It could be fun to have a corpse accidentally buried with an iphone then someone recovers the iphone and it’s listing steps from the corpse trying to rise

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I want to be buried in a staged scene with a broken coffin lid and posed as if I’m clambering up through the dirt.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A 17th-century child’s remains were found padlocked to a grave in Poland - an act that is thought to be been to stop him rising from the dead.

    Archaeologists uncovered the body of a six- to seven-year-old buried facedown with a triangular iron padlock under its foot.

    It is believed the body, found in the northern village of Pien, was buried facedown and padlocked to the grave because of ancient supernatural beliefs in vampires.

    The find was reported to have come from the same site as a year ago it was announced the remains of a woman had been discovered with a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot.

    The child was likely buried facedown to keep it from sitting up and exiting the grave to feed on living people, he added.

    The child’s bones date from an era that viewed ghosts, zombies and other supernatural entities as being as real as humans.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m just imagining a vampire waking, then sticking its butt up in the air in an attempt to sit up. Then cartooning question marks coming out in its confusion