15.3.2011 The vampire grave was exhibited in the Memorial

An unusual discovery was made by archaeologists in the spring of 2010. They discovered the grave of a vampire in Modrá near Velehrad, which they exhibited a year later in March at the Great Moravia Memorial in the Old Town.
They came across skeletal remains less than a meter deep. The tomb of the so-called revent (horror vampire) was covered with flat stones. The fact that archaeologists found the vampire's grave is also proved by the fact that the dead part of the dead man's skull was posthumously crushed with a large stone and the grave was subsequently covered with boulders.

The archaeologist of the Slovácko Museum in Uherské Hradiště, Miroslav Vaškových, said at the time that various hallucinations, difficult dreams and manifestations of mental illness could lead people to label someone a vampire.

"But also a different look, people with an obvious physical defect. This means individuals who aroused fear or resentment in people from the point of view. People were afraid that they could harm them even after death, so they usually buried them on the edge of the burial ground or some other place outside the sacred cemetery ground and deformed their body remains to prevent these vampires from rising from the grave after death, "explained the archaeologist. .

When people were convinced that they had encountered a vampire, after the death of such an individual, they usually also separated his head from the torso and buried him in a crouched position. Similar graves have previously been discovered in Slavic cemeteries. But the public could never see them at the exhibition.

Archaeologists also found the vampire tomb five years later in the medieval cemetery in Mohelnice, when they examined the northern part of Kostelní náměstí. In addition to the mysterious grave, they also found the remains of a cemetery wall, as well as a chapel with an ossuary. At that time, the survey was carried out by an archaeological team led by Tomáš Zeman.

The strangely buried human remains were encountered in an excavation where a sewer was to be located. They expected to hit the cemetery. "In the Middle Ages, burials took place around parish churches, and Mohelnice was no exception. The church stood here as early as 1247, so the cemetery will be from about the same time, "said Zeman.

He also reminded that in the Middle Ages, cemeteries were not only buried, but also lived because the cities were overcrowded. Usually, beggars roamed the cemeteries.

Sources: www.denik.cz, www.slovackemuzeum.cz, www.rozhlas.cz