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The dead, if you are to heed the warning of burials conducted hundreds of years ago, may not always lay so quietly in their grave.
What isn't known is precisely what it was the living feared, whether vampirism or some other form of revenant, or a supernatural threat to – rather than from – the deceased. The soul, or anima, was thought to have exited the body through the mouth; stopping up the means of egress isWhichever way you look at it, though, the small bones uncovered in the Cemetery of the Babies can only tell a story of darkness and despair.
Of these burials, five had a sickle lodged across the throat or abdomen as a disincentive to rise, while two had a large stone placed across the throat, although whether that was to prevent rising, to prevent the ability to eat, or to perform both functions is unclear.
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