Polish vampires

[Blind groper]

Reference : New Scientist, 29 November 2014, page 18

In Poland, in the 17th and 18th centuries, certain people were suspected of being vampires. When they died, they were buried with stakes, or with a stone under the jaw, to prevent them rising again as vampires, to do evil deeds!

Who were these people? Ooooooh!

Modern scientists excavating those graves have determined that they were cholera victims, and local residents. The lack of knowledge of disease led to a belief that these people were afflicted supernaturally. Thus vampires.

Ain't superstition great?

[cronus]

Reference : New Scientist, 29 November 2014, page 18

In Poland, in the 17th and 18th centuries, certain people were suspected of being vampires. When they died, they were buried with stakes, or with a stone under the jaw, to prevent them rising again as vampires, to do evil deeds!

Who were these people? Ooooooh!

Modern scientists excavating those graves have determined that they were cholera victims, and local residents. The lack of knowledge of disease led to a belief that these people were afflicted supernaturally. Thus vampires.

Ain't superstition great?

Best to take no chances. They had no science. You understand they had no science? And these people looked really borg. And something needed to be done about that. And I was around in a earlier incarnation full of ideas.