11 June 2012

Yep, they know how to treat vampires in Bulgaria

Now it's a scientific fact:

Archaeologists in Bulgaria say they've found two medieval skeletons pierced through the chest with iron rods intended to stop them from turning into vampires.

The discovery highlights a pagan practice common in some villages until a century ago, historians said, where people considered evil had their hearts impaled after death for fear they would return to feast on human blood.
The whys of the matter are simple:
People believed the rod would pin the dead into their graves to prevent them from rising at midnight and terrorizing the living...
And before you look down at the practice and start yakking about superstition, consider the proven scientifically fact that the remedy worked: no one of the suspects rose at midnight.

So there.

7 comments:

yitzgood said...

Can we know for sure they do not rise at midnight? Maybe they get up, take out the stake, do vampire stuff, come back, and put the stake back in.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

It is unwise to argue with folks' wisdom. One could easily get beaten for that. Or have a stake put through some painful point in one's body.

Dick Stanley said...

Heh.

shaun downey said...

That's true. And for that matter carrying a spotted handkerchief at all times has meant I have never been attacked by a tiger.....yet

Dick Stanley said...

OTOH, what else is there to do in Bulgaria? Besides shoot the bull, I mean.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, never been there and don't know much about the place, but the returning tourists say it's a nice place to visit.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

That's not a proven fact yet - as long as you are alive. No harm intended.