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You can go back much further in time than 1600s with corpses in prehistory found buried with their hands and legs tied. We dont know exactly why but the fear th
by ekianjo 3y ago
You can go back much further in time than 1600s with corpses in prehistory found buried with their hands and legs tied. We dont know exactly why but the fear that the dead may rise may be a thing.
- krapp 3y agoIf you don't know the specifics about how corpses decay, it can superficially give evidence that they can rise from the dead and turn into monsters or feed on the living - spasms, vocalizations from expelled gas, gums receding to look like fangs (often dripping with blood,) hair and nails appearing to grow (when really the skin is shrinking,) etc. There are theories that a vampire panic in early New England was attributable to misinterpreting the symptoms of tuberculosis[0]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_vampire_panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_vampire_panic