Ancient Anti-Zombie Persecution in Ireland? Tragic.
This story is very sad, even if it happened a long time ago:
Two early medieval skeletons were unearthed recently in Ireland with large stones wedged into their mouths — evidence, archaeologists say, that it was feared the individuals would rise from their graves like zombies.
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“In this case, the stones in the mouth might have acted as a barrier to stop revenants from coming back from their graves,” Read told Discovery News.
Revenants or the “walking dead” tended to be people who lived as outsiders in society, according to Read.
The two Irish men could have been considered potentially dangerous people, such as enemies, murderers, rapists or they could have been ordinary individuals who died suddenly from a strange illness or murder.
Anything outside the norm would have caused the community to fear that these people could have come back to life to harass their loved ones or others against whom they had a grudge.
The poor, harassed and potentially Zombie individuals were buried sometime in the 700s, their bodies cruelly mutilated with large rocks shoved in their mouths, apparently to deter them from coming back.
And frankly, who’d want to come back from the dead if this is the way you’re going to be treated?
Who shoves a giant rock in someone’s face? Yeesh!
Needless to say this is yet another tragic example of the very long history of persecution the Differently Animated have faced down throughout human history – and of course yet another example of how, no, not everything relating to Zombies comes from George Romero (who wouldn’t make a film for another 1200 years, give or take).
Poor, ancient Irish Zombies. We’re here.. well, in their memory at any rate.
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