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Vampire Skeleton Found In UK
Monday, November 5, 2012 8:40
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Long dismissed as myth and legend, the vampire is associated with spooky stories or – for many teenagers – a Twilight heartthrob.
But for those who lived in the Middle Ages, it was a deadly serious business – and they took extreme measures against anyone suspected of being able to haunt them in the afterlife.
Now, details of one of the few ‘vampire’ burials in Britain have emerged.
A new archaeology report tells of the discovery of a skeleton, dating from 550-700AD, buried in the ancient minster town of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, with metal spikes through its shoulders, heart and ankles.
I vont to zuck yourrr bluuurd!
The reason why the remains had a steak through the heart: ie superstitious ignorance.
“While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was interpretation of the vampire by the Christian Church and the success of vampire literature, namely John Polidori’s 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century, inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula. The Vampyre was itself based on Lord Byron’s unfinished story “Fragment of a Novel”, also known as “The Burial: A Fragment”, published in 1819.”