Tragic, a rock stuffed into the mouth of a 10-year-old to stop the child rising from the grave

News24xx.com -  The grisly ‘vampire burial’ was found at an ancient Roman site in Umbria in Italy. The local calling it as the Vampire of Lugnano. 

And in one corpse from the burial that found at La Necropoli dei Bambini, or the Cemetery of the Babies, which dates to the mid-fifth century when a deadly malaria outbreak swept the area, the scientist from the University of Arizona found a rock stuffed into the mouth of a 10-year-old, to stop the child rising from the grave. 

David Soren, from the University of Arizona said, "It’s extremely eerie and weird."

Soren found the vampire burial in the commune of Lugnano in Teverina – and the researchers believe the stone was placed there as part of a funeral ritual to contain disease, and to prevent the child rising from the grave.

The discovery has the potential to tell researchers much more about the devastating malaria epidemic that hit Umbria nearly 1,500 years ago.

But in the past,  locals used witchcraft in response, because archaeologists previously found infant and toddler bones alongside raven talons, toad bones, bronze cauldrons filled with ash and the remains of puppies.

 

 

 

 

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