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A vampire burial or anti-vampire burial is a

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performed in a way which was believed to prevent the deceased from revenance in the form of a

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or to prevent an "actual" vampire from revenance. Traditions, known from the medieval times, varied."How to Properly Bury a Vampire"
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'', March 12, 2009 By an association, the term "vampire burial" may also refer to burials apparently performed with rituals associated with beliefs that the buried may arise from the dead or evil spirits may come out of the grave, etc., and these rituals were intended to prevent this from happening. An example of this is believed to be the case of mid-5th century "Children's Necropolis" of

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, Italy. Archeologists uncovered a number of burials believed to be of this type. * A mid-16th century burial of a woman on the island of Lazzaretto Nuovo in the Venice lagoon, Italy, * Some interments in a cemetery in

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, dated 1675–1880. * Drawsko cemetery, Poland, dated to 17th-18th centuries"Mystery of 'Vampire' Burials Solved"
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, Poland * A 17th century burial of a woman in a graveyard in Pień, Poland. The corpse had a padlock around the toe and a

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positioned in such a way that if the corpse had risen from the grave, the scythe would have severed its throat.Andrew Court,
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Anti-vampire burial from Sanok An apparent anti-vampire burial was discovered in Sanok, a city in southern Poland, in 1986. After two years of excavation, the remains of forty men were discovered, most of them partially destroyed. History This burial was discovered in 1986 ...

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