Thanks Red Badger. The reason was, witless superstition.
Posted on 10/31/2023 11:49:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Archaeologists unearthed the remains of a 17th-century child padlocked to his grave in southeastern Poland, Reuters reported Monday.
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The child, aged six or seven, was found in a cemetery in Pien, about 170 miles south of Warsaw, according to the Reuters report. The child reportedly was found buried face down and padlocked by his feet to the grave with a triangular padlock in what appears to be an effort to prevent it from resurrecting from the dead to feast on the living.
The discovery suggested that the people of that era firmly believed in vampires, ghosts, zombies, and other paranormal phenomena, the report noted.
“It is thought that people were buried face down for fear they would bite,” Professor Dariusz Polinski, the lead archaeologist and a researcher on medieval burials at Nicolas Copernicus University in Torun, said, according to Reuters. “So that if they awoke and wanted to rise, they would bite the ground. That is the current understanding…These were people who, if this was done intentionally, feared contact with these people because they might bite, drink blood,” he added.
Only the child’s leg bones were discovered as the grave had been desecrated sometime after the burial and most bones removed, Reuters noted.
The discovery was the latest find in the cemetery – back in 2022, the archaeologists reportedly had found the remains of a 17th-century woman similarly padlocked to her grave but also with an iron sickle across her neck in an apparent effort to keep her from rising from the dead.
“We know from anthropological tests that she was really sick. Perhaps this disease caused such symptoms that after death it was believed that she might come back as a demon, or, let’s say, harm the dead, so that’s why she was secured,” Professor Polinski said, per Reuters.
The cemetery, he reportedly said, was “a cemetery for rejected people, who were certainly feared after death, and perhaps also during life … who were suspected of having contacts with unclean forces, people who also behaved differently in some way.”
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Thanks Red Badger. The reason was, witless superstition.
He was in the Witless Protection Program....................
I wonder if burying Dead Democrats face down, padlocked and with an iron sickle across their neck will prevent them from voting DEMOCRAT every November?????
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Given the two wars the Ottoman Empire did on Poland in the 17th century to steal Ukraine from them, maybe the Polish thought the boy was Turk.
They're a common sight on any big city street in the USA. Perhaps we should take a page out of history and reconstitute the practice.
They’re a common sight on any big city street in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k
I knew what that was even before I looked!.................
They discovered why when they removed the padlock and the child’s bones quickly fed on the archeologists.
stay away from them? George floyd , whoopie, hillary, AoC, rishad, blm, etc?
Just like people in the 21st century firmly believe that CO2 is a toxin, humans cause climate change and governments want to solve problems.
He must have had all his teeth when he passed and the coroner came up with the idea.
Dead Republicans vote Democrat, too.
Somehow I suspect that a spiritual force powerful enough to resurrect dead people wouldn’t be bothered by a padlock
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