FOX News: Polish archaeologists find 'vampires' at construction site

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Polish archaeologists find 'vampires' at construction site Jul 12th 2013, 17:07 Planning to visit Poland soon? Beware of the vampires. Well, not really. According to the Telegraph, skeletons were found with their heads removed and placed on their legs in the Polish town of Gliwice. This gruesome burial is evidence that the victim had been accused of being a vampire and thus, had been subjected to an execution ritual, making sure that the undead stayed dead. Sometimes, those accused of being vampires were simply decapitated, while others would be hung from a gibbet, until the head separating from the body. Then, the heads were placed on the legs to deter the so-called "creatures of the night" from rising from their graves. Historians say that such practices were common amongst former pagan tribes, in the years following their conversion to Christianity. Found during the construction of a road near Gliwice, the archaeologists were highly surprised, as they were used to finding remains of WWII soldiers – not vampire skeletons. Unlike the pale, blood-thirsty creatures depicted in numerous television shows, books and movies, the definition of a vampire in the Middle Ages was much broader. In those times, a vampire could be anyone who still held pagan beliefs, according to the Telegraph.

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