Tuesday 24 July 2012

Pictures: Toothless "Vampire" Skeleton Unearthed in Bulgaria

                      Vampire picture: skeleton from Bulgaria
                      One of the two vampire skeletons found in Bulgaria

The discovery of a 700-year-old skeleton in Bulgaria—seen at the country's National Museum of History in June—offers evidence that the fear of vampires is far older than Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The "vampire" was found entombed among church ruins in the Black Sea town of Sozopol (map) earlier in the month. The skeleton had been stabbed in the chest with an iron rod (upper right), which was in the tomb next to the body.


In addition, the skeleton's teeth had been pulled. Scholars believe the rod and tooth-pulling were techniques villagers used to prevent dead men from turning into vampires. The vampire obsession dates back millennia in countries across Europe. "In graves thousands of years old, skeletons have been found staked, tied up, buried facedown, decapitated ... all well-attested ways of preempting the [attacks] of wandering corpses," wrote former National Geographic historian Mark Collins Jenkins in his bookVampire Forensics.

Picture and news courtesy of National Geographic channel

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