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How vampires were killed on Lazareto Island in Venice

Venice is a city that falls in love with everyone who visits it, but like all the big cities has gone through periods of darkness.A while ago, on one of the islands of the Venetian lagoon, the Lazareto island , an archaeologist found the remains of a woman with a brick embedded between the teeth , were the remains of a vampire .how they killed vampires on this Italian island.

How they killed vampires on Lazareto Island in Venice

It seems that vampire stories are a a relatively modern invention, but it is not like that.The skull found on the Lazaretto island of Venice proves it. How do you know the anthropologists that the Venetians who buried her thought she was a vampire ? For the big stone in his mouth .

How vampires were killed on Lazareto Island in Venice

The skull was found by archaeologists when they were digging a mass grave of the time of the black plague that only Venice in the year 1576 and of which, among others, died the painter Tiziano.The pit is located on the island called Lazzaretto nuovo , about 3 km from Venice.All those who fell sick with the plague were transferred to this island to isolate them.

How vampires were killed on Lazareto Island in Venice

Matteo Borrini, the anthropologist and archaeologist who found the remains, states that this proves that, at that time, it was believed that the vampires fed on the blood of the dead by the plague and that contributed to spreading the epidemic .This idea, very common between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, is based on the fact that many corpses were shrouded and buried and then the gravediggers reopened the graves finding some corpses with signs that they did not understand.Due to the disease, their mouths appeared full of a bloody liquid , its hair seemed to grow r and the shroud , at the height of the oral cavity appeared bored .this was an indication that they were not totally dead and they were called " mortise eaters ".Everything they found abnormal today we know are natural reactions of a corpse in the process of decomposition and the hole of the shroud was a product of tissue rot, produced because of the gases that came out of the mouth causing moisture and proliferation of bacteria .This caused tissue breakage and the victim's teeth were exposed.

How vampires were killed on Lazareto Island in Venice

The gravediggers who found a body in those conditions acted immediately.They were doing what the theologians and doctors of the time commanded: to prevent them from continuing to suck blood and spread the epidemic there was to put something in your mouth that was not edible .In the case of our vampire what they put in her mouth was a brick .It is not the only specimen found in those conditions, but in this case the anthropologists have been able to reconstruct the entire ritual.

If you liked to discover how they killed the vampires ancient If you are interested in topics related to vampirism or Venice, you may want to read:

-There are vampires, yes or no?

-30 Captivating sights of Venice

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