DID YOU EVER WONDER WHERE THE LEGEND OF VAMPIRES BEGAN? IT SURE WASN'T BRAUM STOKERS COUNT DRACULA BOOK. PEOPLE REALLY BELIVED THEY WERE UNDEAD MONSTERS WHO SUCKED HUMAN BLOOD. VAMPIRES ARE POPULAR IN TODAY'S CULTURE. THERE WAS A RECENT MOVIE ABOUT VAMPIRES - THE TWILIGHT - WHICH ROMANTIZED THE BLOODSUCKERS. HERE'S AN INTERESTING REPORT FROM RUETERS...
By Daniel Flynn ROME (Reuters) - Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of a female "vampire" in Venice, buried with a brick jammed between her jaws to prevent her feeding on victims of a plague which swept the city in the 16th century. Daniel Flynn Rome (reuters) - Italian Researchers Believe They Have Found The Remains Of A Female "vampire" In Venice, Buried With A Brick Jammed Between Her Jaws To Prevent Her Feeding On Victims Of A Plague Which Swept The City In The 16th Century. – Thu Mar 12, 1:19 pm ET
Matteo Borrini, an anthropologist from the University of Florence, said the discovery on the small island of Lazzaretto Nuovo in the Venice lagoon supported the medieval belief that vampires were behind the spread of plagues like the Black Death.
"This is the first time that archaeology has succeeded in reconstructing the ritual of exorcism of a vampire," Borrini told Reuters by telephone. "This helps ... authenticate how the myth of vampires was born."
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