Sunday 8 March 2009

Some One Once Said "See Venice And Die!"

well you can also go there and see the vampires as well, a skeleton exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the "vampires" widely referred to in contemporary documents, Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found the skeleton of a woman with a small brick in her mouth while excavating mass graves of plague victims from the Middle Ages on Lazzaretto Nuovo Island in Venice, at the time the woman died, many people believed that the plague was spread by "vampires" which, rather than drinking people's blood, spread disease by chewing on their shrouds after dying, grave-diggers put bricks in the mouths of suspected vampires to stop them doing this, Borrini says, the skeleton was removed from a mass grave of victims of the Venetian plague of 1576, so the victim did go to Venice and died!

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