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"An Italian scientist determined to demystify the legends of Vampires of the Middle Ages did excavate the remains of a sixteenth-century woman who was buried with a brick in the mouth due to the suspicion that fed on blood of others at the height of the Black Death.
forensic anthropologist and archaeologist found the remains Borrini Matteo in 2006 during the excavation of a mass grave on the island of Lazaretto Nuovo in Venice Lagoon datto the Black Death (or Bubonic Plague) that hit the city in 1566.
Unlike the legends propagated by Abraham "Bram" Stoker in his novel "Dracula"
(1897), for the inhabitants of Venice at that time did not help drive a stake chest to the alleged vampire.
The way to neutralize rested instead of putting something edible in his mouth. The explanation for this reasoning can be found in the work of German theologian Philip Rohr, "De Mastication Mortuorum"
(1679).
"We know Phillip Rohr and otros authors that people actually did those things (burying the dead with bricks in the mouth) in times of plague corpses they thought to have found characteristics of vampires, "said BBC World Borrini a telephone interview from his office at the University of Florence.
They ate the shroud
There was a belief that the bodies showed signs that the dead man was eating the cloth which had been buried should be treated like vampires .
"In my study I tried to understand the phenomenon because I really do not creo in vampires, "said the coroner who worked on the project with her sister Camila Borrini and collaborators Alessandra Mariani and Pier Paolo Cappabianca. For the forensic
there is clear scientific explanation for the phenomenon found by the gravediggers of the time they used to reopen the graves in search of vampires.
corpses were often those who saw a hole on the shroud that covered the mouth, swollen abdomen in addition to the blood and the growth of new skin on the hands and feet.
"The abdomen swollen with red fluid is a characteristic of CAD & aacute; decaying carcasses.
The new skin on the hands or feet is another feature of the decomposition process.
The shroud inside the mouth is due to the exhalation of gases during decomposition. The shroud is wet, it falls into the mouth with moisture and forms a gap due to gas and bacteria, "said the coroner.
Borrini presented the findings of their study at the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS, according to its acronym in English) held in February in Denver.
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