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“VAMPIRE” PIC : EXORCISM SKULL FOUND IN ITALY

The partial body and skull of a woman with her jaw forced open by a brick - an exorcism technique used on suspected vampires - has been discovered in a mass grave on the island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, Italy.

According to the National Geographic - “It’s the first time that archaeological remains have been interpreted as belonging to a suspected vampire.”

via criminalwisdom

Why a brick? Also OUCH.

Because a brick was impossible to bite through, and would keep the “vampire” from being able to attack anyone after death (if i remember my culture lesson right, said suspected vamps were also tied up, and some of them had garlic shoved in every possible opening, and a few more were fully exsanguinated to weaken them.  but i might be making that last part up, as I cannot for the life of me remember where i learned it).

I’ve heard about the exsanguination myself, but the garlic bit was new. Well. The more you know. It does make a twisted kind of sense, though.

Shit, now I know what happened to my jaw last week.

I was going to say something to the effect of, “You sure that wasn’t all the dick you sucked?” but then I remembered that was my job.