Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, intended to stop her from rising from the dead. With a sickle across her neck and ...

Europe in the 17th century was also in the grip of what’s known as the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling that in some places led to crop failure and famine. The padlock and sickle were made of ...

Europe in the 17th century was also in the grip of what’s known as the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling that in some places led to crop failure and famine. The padlock and sickle were made of ...

DrShah has explained some of the conditions doctors are now seeing in hospitals - including rickets that surged in the UK hundreds of years ago and scury that was common in the 17th century.

Swedish scientists have reconstructed the face of a 400-year-old woman buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across ... The woman, who lived in 17th-century Europe and was named ...

Swedish scientists have reconstructed the face of a 400-year-old woman buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck because people in her time believed she was a vampire. The ...

On Sunday, Nov. 3, the actress, 48, celebrated her daughter Ever's 17th birthday on Instagram, sharing a variety of sweet throwbacks and recent snaps, as well as a sentimental message about her ...

Zosia died at the height of a fabled vampire epidemic in Poland during the 17th century. During the time, laying a sickle across the necks of the dead, or even placing stones beneath their jaws ...

In 2022, Professor Dariusz Poliński and his team from the Archaeology Institute of Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) uncovered a curious burial in a 17th-century cemetery in the village of Pień, ...