A brick protruded from her mouth, inserted for ritual purposes. A mysterious burial was discovered in Venice during the excavations of an ancient cemetery, where victims of the plague epidemic that raged in the Middle Ages are buried.
“Nothing like this has come across before,” says Matteo Borrini, an archaeologist at the University of Florence. - Although there were documents in which it was written about vampires, and that they were buried in the ground with a stone in their mouth.
The researcher explains that at that distant time, people really believed in vampires. Moreover, they believed that they were spreading the plague. This prejudice most likely arose from the fact that victims of the disease sometimes bleed from the mouth.
The dark ancestors were sure that vampires suck blood especially viciously after their death. That is, they rise from their graves and attack - they bite and suck. And so that they did not do this, the dead vampires were gagged. Here is the skeleton of one such and found. Specifically female.
Doctors are going to study this terrible find. They want to see if there was really something vampire about the woman.