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.
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How did they know it was a woman?
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
Her name was found to be “Hillaria Rudhamania Celintoni”.
“...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.
How long until this makes “Executed Today”!
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.
🤣
Let's ask him…
This can probably be blamed on some ancestor of Donald Trump.
Hillary is an evil being, to be sure. But I can’t envision her as a witch.
Oh, wait. Yes I can.
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!!!
Lol!
No brick necessary for her. Just throw some water on her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UsrZSA3PPM
They knew based on her pronouns.
I’m a chick.
Right, right, how dumb of me.
How do they know it was not just a husband that had listened to too much yammering and was fed up?
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