Archaeologists have discovered a child “vampire” grave beneath a bishop’s palace in Poland.
A team working for the Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments have unearthed the remains of a child who buried as a vampire in the gardens of the palace of a bishop in Góra Chełmska who belonged to the Ruthenian Uniate Church, an eastern Church in communion with Rome.
The child was decapitated and the skull placed faced down before heavy stones were placed on top of the body.
The measures were intended to stop the child from rising as an undead animated corpse and terrorising the local population.
