Vampire Graves, Sozopol, Bulgaria - Global Citizenship Summer School (sitios de interés)
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The latest of over a hundred 'vampire' burial sites in Bulgaria was unearthed near the Black Sea town of Sozopol, Bulgaria, in 2012.
The skeletons were found stabbed through the heart with iron rods, and are thought to be evidence of the pagan practice in which people suspected of evil were pinned to their graves, thereby preventing them from leaving at midnight and feasting on the living. Historians suggest that this practice was common in some Bulgarian villages until up to a century ago.
Vampire are central to the region's folklore, and such myths were direct inspiration for Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'.
The skeletons were found stabbed through the heart with iron rods, and are thought to be evidence of the pagan practice in which people suspected of evil were pinned to their graves, thereby preventing them from leaving at midnight and feasting on the living. Historians suggest that this practice was common in some Bulgarian villages until up to a century ago.
Vampire are central to the region's folklore, and such myths were direct inspiration for Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'.