A fun halloween read!🎃👻⚰️🔒

side-by-side image from the New York Times. LEFT: A rusted iron padlock with a triangular body. CAPTION: "The padlock found on the child’s foot.Credit: Łukasz Czyżewski" RIGHT: a skull, viewed from beneath so that the palate and teeth are visible. CAPTION: "Green stains on the woman’s upper jaw.Credit: Magdalena Zagrodzka" source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/science/archaeology-burial-vampires-revenants.html?unlocked_article_code=MtXJNaVif7mqTBm4I8kutFpHQRYXQ4XlLvsQIGO0q-Sg9EMGJHwy_bimlp81ccl7SUR3W7qG9QTXRIrcx2gD77wSOqqDAGb2M3Zdhq7KlKAc3Y-FI_nUI-QwMMIo2GGsDUr0u9urt8maaH0Qv4GH9yhmP3Q5DuAeiV-CAeRLj2ifev-5U1SjE3Xcgfi6549_MUpJRGiGSMG2X86AjyUyYSXkkZWZsx5nfnAjm3zp7VmI8DjOitWHbSdGfXMeEZGkgXPJf9iDhz5vibD221gHvBLKyFN5KjbOq1qIYqot4dYxgmy33A27p010XDPUwcG_wXAIJbgrHQMEHjG7-jq7pxJmUKh1aLkpL8rJpOsOzw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A fun read for those interested in revenants, vampires, European history, grave robbery, and quixotic Jewish funeral rites—SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!!!

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“Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave: In 17th-century Europe, the dead were a constant threat to rise again and bedevil the living. Now archaeologists have found the remains of a suspected child revenant.”