Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

400-year-old 'vampire child' found buried with its foot padlocked to stop it rising from the grave

Archaeologists in Poland have unearthed the 400-year-old skeleton of a young child buried face-down with an iron padlock on its foot – seemingly to stop its rising from the dead.

The child was buried in the 17th century in the village of Pień near Poland’s northern city of Bydgoszcz, in what seems to have been a graveyard for "abandoned souls" and the poor who could not afford to be buried in a churchyard.

The archaeologists estimate the child was between 5 and 7 years old at death.

The remains were found just a few feet away from the skeleton of a "vampire" woman discovered last year, who was buried at about the same time with a sickle placed over her neck and a similar padlock on her foot.

According to the traditions of the time, such padlocks were intended to secure a corpse in its grave.

"The padlock shows people were afraid of this child after its death," Dariusz Poliński, an archaeologist at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, told Live Science.

A third padlock was unearthed in the same graveyard, though only scattered bones were found nearby.

No other child skeletons buried like this have been found at the site, and it is likely this is the only known example of such a burial in Europe, Poliński said.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/400-year-old-vampire-child-found-buried-with-its-foot-padlocked-to-stop-it-rising-from-the-grave/ar-AA1f9Sv6#interstitial=1

steve66613

Evidently, the padlock worked.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Now we know

pegw

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Big dog

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son of witless

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