Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – 🧛 “Vampire” – These first two images (from Reuters & National Geographic) are of the skull of the ‘Venice Vampire’, exhumed on an island near Venice called Lazzaretto Nuovo. I was actually at that dig ON THAT ISLAND several years before the “vampire” was found, and wrote about it in my blog post wp.me/p4e564-eN. I’ve added some pics of me on that dig, but I don’t have many as this was before we all had phones with cameras. This skull is of course not a real vampire (I assume..) but during the Black Death, around the 1500s, there was a genuine fear of the undead rising from their graves to feed from the innocent and spread pestilence. Shoving something inedible in the cadaver’s mouth was an exorcism technique. This is one of the only exhumed examples from there: the “vampire” has had had a brick shoved in it’s mouth (Last week I posted two other examples of “vampire” burials from a Polish dig, so do check that out if you’re interested
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