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[–] SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 97 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Humans used to be so fucked up.

We still are, but we used to be too.

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What's fucked up about chaining up a corpse. Of course it doesn't help anything but there is also no harm in it.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Someone once asked me if I’d like some glacier-covered land in Alaska. I said “no, but I would like some non-glacier-covered land in Alaska later, so yeah”

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

The remains date from an era that viewed ghosts, zombies and other supernatural entities as being as real as humans.

I am so glad that 95% of the human race no longer believes in the supernatural and never supports organized religion.

Tiring day, can't wait to get home and watch shows that are educational that totally don't speculate about ancient aliens or hunt ghosts.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they just unlocked it and let it out?! Goddamnit!

[–] sock@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

its probably a hiding vampire bat waiting to release covid-20

[–] anubis119@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Noooo...you must not read from the book!

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Humans believing in fantasy beings to the point of murder...how dumb...

...wait a minute...

[–] THJr@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I can tell in the article the kid wasn't murdered? Or did I miss something

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it just sounds like the kid died and this was a burial rite precaution.

I think the person above you just read the headline and made an assumption.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe he thought the kid was to be a snack for the vampire

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Santa Slayer!

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Look it might be a waste of a lock, but I don’t want some vampire kid killing me. Don’t let your last words be, ‘I should have listened to Jeeeeeeff!’”

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

“It’s pronounced Jeff”

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A 17th-century child's remains were found padlocked to a grave in Poland - an act that is thought to be been to stop him rising from the dead.

Archaeologists uncovered the body of a six- to seven-year-old buried facedown with a triangular iron padlock under its foot.

It is believed the body, found in the northern village of Pien, was buried facedown and padlocked to the grave because of ancient supernatural beliefs in vampires.

The find was reported to have come from the same site as a year ago it was announced the remains of a woman had been discovered with a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot.

The child was likely buried facedown to keep it from sitting up and exiting the grave to feed on living people, he added.

The child's bones date from an era that viewed ghosts, zombies and other supernatural entities as being as real as humans.


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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I’m just imagining a vampire waking, then sticking its butt up in the air in an attempt to sit up. Then cartooning question marks coming out in its confusion

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool. I'm down for that when I die

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

The headline is somewhat ambiguous, and seems to imply that the child was chained there to prevent a vampire buried below from rising. Knowing the child was the supposed vampire makes this a little less grim, because I was picturing some poor kid with his leg shackled to a headstone and left to die.