Someone in 17th century Poland really did not want one particular girl rising from the dead.
In 2022, archaeologists unearthed an unsettling grave in a cemetery in Pień, north-central Poland. A young woman had been buried with the handle of a sickle driven into the dirt beside her neck so that its serrated blade hooked over her throat. The woman, who the researchers call Zosia, also wore a triangular padlock on the big toe of her left foot.
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“The placement of the sickle and the padlock suggests that the purpose of these practices was to protect the living from Zosia after her…
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