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17th-Century Teen Found With Padlock on Toe and Sickle at Throat Points to Anti‑demonic Burial Practices

Researchers report the padlock and sickle were added after the initial burial as precautions to restrain the dead.

Study Confirms 17th-Century Polish Grave Was Treated with Anti‑Vampiric Measures

Ancient DNA Shows Adults and Children Buried Together in Medieval Sweden Were Rarely Close Kin

Iron Age Skull Shows Signs of Deliberate Brain Removal, Study Finds

Viking-Age Mass Burial Unearthed Near Cambridge Reveals Brutal Deaths and a Trepanned Giant

Tourists Discover Centuries-Old Human Remains on Edisto Island