Potential 'vampires' buried in northwestern Poland with sickles and rocks across their bodies were likely local and not immigrants to the region. In northwestern Poland, apotropaic funerary rites ...

Citation: Gregoricka LA, Betsinger TK, Scott AB, Polcyn M (2014) Apotropaic Practices and the Undead: A Biogeochemical Assessment of Deviant Burials in Post-Medieval Poland. PLoS ONE 9(11):e113564 ...

Unconventional burial practices to prevent vampires from rising up from the grave were common in post-medieval Poland, ... the remains of six apotropaic burials were compared against 60 normal ones.

Poland, where apotropaic rites were common in the medieval and post-medieval periods, has folklore rich with the vjesci and ...

Archaeologists have discovered new details about how a 'real-life vampire' spent her final moments in medieval Poland. Two years ago, archaeologist Professor Dariusz Polinski and his partner Magda ...

At that time, northwestern Poland was a region that had a large number of immigrants. Therefore, the authors predicted that the six suspected vampires, due to their "outsider" status, were likely to ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered “sensational” artifacts beneath a historic monastery in Poland — offering a glimpse into ...

Just ten miles south of the Polish city of Krakow is a remarkable place carved from salt. It’s one of the country’s amazing UNESCO heritage sites.

Apotropaic marks have been found in medieval houses dating from about 1550 to 1750. They have, for example, been recorded at Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, ...

A metal detectorist in Poland stumbled on a rare medieval artifact used to hold keys or purses, archaeologists said and photos show. Photo from the Museum of the History of the Kamień Land A ...

A metal detectorist in Poland stumbled on a rare medieval artifact used to hold keys or purses, archaeologists said and photos show. Photo from the Museum of the History of the Kamień Land A ...