The remains of a woman believed to be a vampire were unearthed in a Polish cemetery. But it may all have been a misunderstanding.
who was buried with a brick in her mouth to prevent her feeding on plague victims in the sixteenth century. Vampires appear cross-culturally and burial rituals to prevent them from rejoining the living are also not constrained to a single time period or country. But they did seem to come to a head during thecentury, when people from Eastern and Western Europe believed that vampires were appearing in large numbers throughout the continent.
The link between vampirism and illness passed into the literary history of vampirism as well. Contrary to what many people think, the first vampire novel was not. This story describes the relationship between a frail young girl and the mysterious aristocratic stranger taken in by her family. Written twenty-five years before, Le Fanu’s story is an homage to concealed desires and identity.
In the case of the woman from Pien, however, her specific case and identification as a vampire may have been less about epidemiology than it was about dentistry. The woman had a protruding front tooth, which some have led her neighbors to suspect her. Given early modern standards of dentistry it’s not clear how problematic her tooth would have been to people. But her postmortem mistreatment certainly offers a compelling reason to get braces.
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