The remains of a woman from the sixteenth century were found with a brick stacked on her mouth. Experts say that people who where killed that way were believed to be vampires. Archaeologist and Anthropologist Matteo Borrini of Florence University in Italy found the well preserved skeleton on an archaeological dig near Venice on the Lazzaretto Nuovo Island on 2006. “For the first time we have found evidence of an exorcism against a vampire” said Matteo who had studied the case for more than 2 years.
At that time vampires were believed to feed on the cloth and cast a spell that would spread the plague in order to increase their ranks. People would believe that decomposed bodies with blood all over their mouths were vampires, and that they drank the blood of human beings, even though they were dead people that died of an epidemic plague that hit Venice in 1576. To kill them, the modern method of the stake in the heart wasn’t enough, something like a rock or brick had to be stuffed in the “vampire’s” mouth so it starved to death.
At that time vampires were believed to feed on the cloth and cast a spell that would spread the plague in order to increase their ranks. People would believe that decomposed bodies with blood all over their mouths were vampires, and that they drank the blood of human beings, even though they were dead people that died of an epidemic plague that hit Venice in 1576. To kill them, the modern method of the stake in the heart wasn’t enough, something like a rock or brick had to be stuffed in the “vampire’s” mouth so it starved to death.
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