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'Vampire' Unearthed in Venice

Gravediggers took steps to stop corpse feasting on other plague victims

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 14, 2009 2:04 AM CDT

(Newser) – Italian archeologists have discovered evidence of an ancient vampire-slaying ritual in a 16th-century plague pit near Venice, the AP reports. A female skeleton was unearthed with a brick wedged between her jaws, in what experts believe was an attempt by superstitious gravediggers to stop the...   Read full story »

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