16th Century Vamp?

**Haunted** · March 18th, 2009

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**hipmamajen** · March 19th, 2009

From the article: Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of a female "vampire" from 16th-century Venice, buried with a brick in her mouth to prevent her feasting on plague victims.

It seems to me that it would be a GOOD thing to feast on plague victims. Otherwise they'll just get piled deeper and deeper and stink up the place.

**youngfibre** · March 19th, 2009

The plague victims were buried next to them? Thats alot of work to stop vampires from cleansing the land.

**tillyn** · March 19th, 2009

I was kind of hoping vampires weren't real, damn after reading Salem's lot i had enough vampire nightmares.

**smjohn** · March 19th, 2009

Originally Posted by Haunted

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Most-E...3722170097.jpg

It kinda looks like she was shot in the head...

**smooth operator** · March 19th, 2009

Yuck - I thought that vampires fed only on the living, not the dead. And why would they feast on plague victims? Plague victims had many of the same symptoms as Captain Trips - they could not have been very appetizing, even to a vampire. And if she was determined to feast on any victim, how would a brick in the mouth stop her? Apparently, Italians do not have the same vampire mythology that I am familiar with.

**BlackThorn** · March 19th, 2009

I read about this in the paper. I thought it was interesting. I'll never get tired of that old-world combined fear and lust towards magic and evil, and the distances people would go out of hysterical fear.

Of course, I'm guessing if you put a hapless victim next to those old bones, after you removed the brick from the scull, you wouldn't see any undead behavior from the skeleton. Even if you forcibly fed it by hand, I'm gonna bet cold cash on it not moving an inch. So therefore, they didn't find a true vampire, they musta just found someone who was killed in that ritualistic way, because everyone was so damn scared that she really was a demonic vampress...