Female vampire remains unearthed on Lazzaretto Nuovo Island in Venice Italy!
‘Vampire’ Discovered
In Mass Grave
NEWSCIENTIST.COM
March 6th, 2009
A SKELETON exhumed
from a grave in Venice is
being claimed as the first
known example of the
“vampires” widely referred
to in contemporary documents.
Matteo Borrini of the University of
Florence in Italy found the skeleton
of a woman with a small brick in
her mouth while excavating mass
graves of plague victims from the
Middle Ages on Lazzaretto Nuovo
Island in Venice.
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At the time the woman died,
many people believed that the
plague was spread by “vampires”
which,
rather than drinking people’s blood,
spread disease by chewing on
their shrouds after dying.
Grave-diggers put bricks in the
mouths of suspected vampires
to stop them doing this,
Borrini says.
The belief in vampires probably
arose because blood is sometimes
expelled from the mouths of the dead,
causing the shroud to sink
inwards and tear.
Borrini, who presented his findings
at a meeting of the American Academy
of Forensic Sciences in Denver,
Colorado, last week,
claims this might be the first such
vampire to have been forensically
examined.
The skeleton was removed from
a mass grave of victims of the
Venetian plague of 1576.
State University in Kansas says he
has found similar skeletons in
Poland and that while Borrini’s
finding is exciting,
“claiming it as the first vampire
is a little ridiculous”.
Borrini says his study details
the earliest grave to show
archaeological “exorcism evidence
against vampires”.
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been found in a grave in Venice lagoon,
anthropologist has claimed.
Matteo Borrini of Florence University
Ages whose skull had been impaled
could no longer feed.
Borrini told a meeting of the
Forensic Sciences in Denver that
of the plague there was a widespread
was spread by female vampires.
This idea probably originated from
that often came from the mouths of
died, Borrini said.
It was thought that these vampires,
to the bodies of plague victims,
begin feeding on the living,
contamination.

Gravediggers were therefore
possible vampire women among
The woman`s skeleton was found
of the Venetian plague of 1576 –
also died –
Venice authorities had designated
epidemic.
Borrini said gravediggers had
woman`s mouth with such force
teeth.
When a later wave of the Black Death
Venice between 1630 and 1631,
the cosmopolitan city`s
Legends of vampirism has existed
originates with stories from the early
and Eastern Europe.
After a spate of alleged sightings,
spread to Western Europe and
Stoker`s 1897 novel Dracula.
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