Eastern Europe is notable for its undead population , so it ’s just surprising that Polish mortals were particularly fearful of lamia back in the Middle Ages . And while most people in the part have now got over their suspicion and superstitions , archaeologist working near the Greenwich Village of Górzyca have unearthed grounds of the peachy length that local once went to in orderliness to annihilate vicious monsters .
dig up up Robert Ranke Graves dating back to the 13th and fourteenth centuries , the team disclose three corpses that come out to have been consideredvampires . All three had been mar in some manner , and exhibit golf hole in their spines that advise they had been peg down to forestall them from go up again .
All three supposed vampire had hole in their spines , apparently induce by multitude nailing them to the earth to prevent them from rising again . Krzysztof Socha
One of the frame belonged to a charwoman who the scientist think may have suffered from a stipulation called kyphosis , which is characterized by a hunching of the back and may have given her a startling posture that could have caused others to fear her .
While this is n’t conclusive proof ofvampirism , local anaesthetic were n’t have any chances , and made sure to break her knee before burying her face - down and pinning her in place .
Archaeologist Krzysztof Socha , from the Museum of Fortress Kostrzyn , toldSeekerthat a man buried nearby may also have suffered from hunchback , and had been decapitated .
One of the body was buried with its head wedged between two stones . Krzysztof Socha
A third dead body , also belonging to a mankind , was receive with its brain wedged between two stones , which was probably another proficiency to keep the stiff from climb .
The grave were all discover on the perimeter of a cemetery , and were clearly given peculiar intervention in comparison to the ease of the bodies , all of which were immerse along an east - to - west axis with their hands neatly cross on their pectus or set by their sides .
