In the midst of Twilight mania (which, yes, is big in Italy too), we’re delighted to alert readers to a breaking story about a Venetian “vampire” recently excavated in a mass grave on the small island of Lazzaretto Nuovo that can be dated to an outbreak of the plague in 1576.
The news broke at a meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists in Denver, when Matteo Borrini of the Universita di Firenze announced that he and his archaeoloical team had excavated the skeleton of a Renaissance woman whose skull was imaled through the mouth with a brick.
Why a brick through the mouth? It seems that during the plague, it was commonly believed that the disease was spread by female vampires.
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Originally Posted by Gingersnap
