Every polish has its way of dealing with monsters . The people of 8th century Ireland curbed zombie uprisingsby ramming rock into the mouths of their dead . In knightly - era Bulgaria , people stave off vampire with a track to the chest . concord to the BBC :
The multitude of 8th one C Ireland were afraid of zombies , too
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have found two knightly skeletal system pierced through the chest with Fe rods to supposedly stop them from turning into vampires .
The discovery illustrate a pagan practice common in some Greenwich Village up until a one C ago , say historian .
mass deemed bad had their hearts stabbed after death , for fear they would come back to feast on human ’ blood .
According to Bulgarian historian Bozhidar Dimitrov , the rods may also have been used to keep potential vampire pegged inside their graves , the way a butterfly stroke collector might pin a specimen inside a display instance .
ViaBBC News . Photo via AP .
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