Sunday, August 30, 2026

I think I've mentioned this before, but just in case:

Polish countryside, 17th century. A young woman from high society is buried in a remote cemetery away from the village, because of the manner of her death.

To keep her from returning from the dead, a padlock is clamped around her big toe.

But it doesn't work. She soon rises from her grave and causes more misfortune for those around her.

So the townsfolk take more drastic measures: They return to her grave and place a sickle across her neck, blade facing down, ready to slit her throat if she tries to rise once more.

That's the startling scene archaeologists stumbled upon in Pień, Poland, discovering first the graveyard and then this particular burial in 2022.

I keep waiting for someone to find something like this with a gravestone marked Barnabus Collins*

*cultural reference

3 comments:

Phelps said...

Still blows my mind that it was a soap opera.

episode4 said...

I'm Polish on my dads side and can see that happening, at least in our family

p2 said...

That kinda explains the odd nature of my Mom's side of the family. The old gal's probably one of my relatives....