Happy Halloween!
I'm finally out of a depressive episode, and I've got an interesting story for such a day of the year In the 19th century there was a New England vampire panic. It was caused due to an outbreak of tuberculosis. Before the discovery of the bacteria, the disease was thought to be hereditary. Back then, people thought that the first family member who died of TB would take a vampire form and come back to infect the rest of the family: (the following text can be quite disturbing to read)
"To prevent an ongoing vampire attack and the disease from spreading, panicked citizens dug up bodies and performed various rituals, including burning internal organs.
One such exhumation took place in March 1892 at the Chestnut Hill cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island. Local people brought shovels and picks and, together, exhumed the corpse of 19-year-old Mercy Lena who has been accused of vampirism. Panicked, they removed Mercy’s heart and burned it on a nearby rock. It is believed that, in ritualistic fashion, Edwin then consumed the ashes. Unfortunately, it did nothing to slow the progression of his illness. The young salesclerk died a few months later."
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When i was reading about this I was NOT ready for such an outcome.Oct 31, 2021
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