The bones of the six- to seven-year-old were buried facedown with a triangular iron padlock under one foot. The remains date from an era that viewed ghosts, zombies and other supernatural entities as being as real as humans.
    • TwanHE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      What’s fucked up about chaining up a corpse. Of course it doesn’t help anything but there is also no harm in it.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Someone once asked me if I’d like some glacier-covered land in Alaska. I said “no, but I would like some non-glacier-covered land in Alaska later, so yeah”

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Good day Sir. I have excellent merchandise to sell for you. My anti-tiger rock is guaranteed to keep all your tigers away! Please send money to this address! THANK YOU

      • Narrrz@kbin.social
        11·
        1 year ago

        thank you, but my current anti-tiger rock fulfills my present needs, and has the bonus of keeping other large members of the order felidae at a comfortable distance, too.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    433·
    1 year ago

    The remains date from an era that viewed ghosts, zombies and other supernatural entities as being as real as humans.

    I am so glad that 95% of the human race no longer believes in the supernatural and never supports organized religion.

    Tiring day, can’t wait to get home and watch shows that are educational that totally don’t speculate about ancient aliens or hunt ghosts.

  • saltnotsugar@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    “Look it might be a waste of a lock, but I don’t want some vampire kid killing me. Don’t let your last words be, ‘I should have listened to Jeeeeeeff!’”

  • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Humans believing in fantasy beings to the point of murder…how dumb…

    …wait a minute…

    • THJr@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      From what I can tell in the article the kid wasn’t murdered? Or did I miss something

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A 17th-century child’s remains were found padlocked to a grave in Poland - an act that is thought to be been to stop him rising from the dead.

    Archaeologists uncovered the body of a six- to seven-year-old buried facedown with a triangular iron padlock under its foot.

    It is believed the body, found in the northern village of Pien, was buried facedown and padlocked to the grave because of ancient supernatural beliefs in vampires.

    The find was reported to have come from the same site as a year ago it was announced the remains of a woman had been discovered with a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot.

    The child was likely buried facedown to keep it from sitting up and exiting the grave to feed on living people, he added.

    The child’s bones date from an era that viewed ghosts, zombies and other supernatural entities as being as real as humans.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m just imagining a vampire waking, then sticking its butt up in the air in an attempt to sit up. Then cartooning question marks coming out in its confusion

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      It could be fun to have a corpse accidentally buried with an iphone then someone recovers the iphone and it’s listing steps from the corpse trying to rise