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Shoemaker of Breslau

A tún ń pè é ní: Breslau vampire, Shoemaker of Silesia
Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu àti àròsọÒkúIkú tàbí ìsìnkú búburú1500 sí 1899

The Shoemaker of Breslau is one of the fullest early modern accounts of a town proceeding against a walking dead man. After his concealed suicide in 1591, residents of Breslau, now Wrocław, complained for months of a suffocating night visitor, and the magistrates twice had the body dug up. Only complete destruction, with the head and limbs removed and the heart burned, was held to have ended it. The case reached English readers through the philosopher Henry More, who used it as evidence for the reality of spirits.1

Bá a jà
Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tí a kọ sílẹ̀
1591
Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)
Orírun
Silesian (German)
Poland
Ohun tó fà á
Ikú tàbí ìsìnkú búburú
A suicide was passed off as a natural death and buried in consecrated ground.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
A prosperous shoemaker cut his own throat; his family concealed the cause so that he could have church burial.
Làákàyè
Làákàyè díẹ̀
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • reburial under the gallows (failed)
  • decapitation and dismemberment
  • tearing out and burning the heart, with the ashes thrown in the Oder

Ìgbà wo ló kọ́kọ́ farahàn?

Ayé àtijọ́Sáà Àárín1500 sí 18991900 sí 19671968 sí 19992000 sí 20092010 títí di òní1591

Died 20 September 1591; the case was retold in Henry More's An Antidote against Atheism (1653)

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Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

1

The town council investigated the rumours and the widow confessed to the cover-up1

2

His apparition pressed on sleepers and left bruises and finger marks1

3

Exhumed on 18 April 1592 after about eight months, the body was intact, with supple joints and the throat wound still open1

4

The haunting went on after he was moved to unhallowed ground1

5

At the second exhumation the corpse was swollen; the heart was found fresh1

Àwọn orísun

  1. Vampire Forensics, chapter 6 (Mark Collins Jenkins) - Erenow

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Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu láti àwọn ilẹ̀ kan náà

NachzehrerGerman, 1800StrzygaPolish and Silesian, 1863UpiórSlavic, 1100Pień padlocked burialPolish, 1650VjesciKashubian (northern Poland)

Sáà kan náà: 1500 sí 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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