In 2014 , archaeologists uncovered a frame in Kamień Pomorski , Poland , with a brick wedged in its mouthpiece and stakes driven through its legs . They believed the military personnel was put to death in the eighteenth century because townspeople opine he was a lamia .
Now , genetic and forensic psychoanalysis has shown that the vampire entombment site did n’t contain a man at all : It was a 5 - foot-6 - inch , blue - eyed , blond woman who was at least 65 years old when she died . Newsweekreportsthat scientist at the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin , Poland are now making a 3D computer framework of the woman ’s skull , which they contrive to use to recreate what her side looked like .
The Forensics Genetics Unit at the university will then build up her look on a forcible manakin from bed of charge plate material and reveal it to the public within the next few calendar month . Andrzej Ossowski , the head of the unit , told the websiteScience in Polandthat he hop a museum might display the rendering . “ We require to show that with the help of modern method acting , we are able to supersede skeletons that are very unwashed in museum with 3D models based on enquiry , ” he say .
He say that townspeople may have killed the woman because they thought she was awitch , and they gave her an “ anti - vampiric ” burial to forestall her from rising from her grave à laNosferatu . The brick in her mouth was meant to weigh her down — in other burials a reap hook might have been station across the neck of the body , which would slit the revenant ’s pharynx should it essay to come up .
We often remember of Salem when it come towitchtrials , but they were unwashed throughout Europe before the 19th century , and archaeologist have chance upon “ anti - vampiric ” Stephanie Graf in Poland , Bulgaria , and Italy . wonder if you might have qualified as a witch during the seventeenth - century period of Puritan paranoia ? encounter outhere .
[ h / tNewsweek ]
