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Vampires aren't real, but "vampires burials", where the dead are interred in some strange manner in order to prevent their rising again, occurred infrequently in Medieval Europe. Do historians have a theory as to what was really wrong with the people who were buried in this manner?

by /u/124876720 in /r/AskHistorians

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