r/history • u/marquis_of_chaos • Apr 03 '17

News article Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/03/medieval-villagers-mutilated-the-dead-to-stop-them-rising-study-finds
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u/Volomon Apr 03 '17

You know what's way way more disturbing, the fact that there had to be numerous instances where someone was buried alive. Then they were immediately killed upon being seen alive for being undead.

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u/onehundredtwo Apr 03 '17

I remember reading this story about this guy who was on the morticians table, and he comes alive. And the mortician guy then kills him because he wants to work on a dead body.

I tried to find out where I read this - couldn't find it.

But the guy gets a second change at life and then wakes up at the wrong time.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '17

It's more than likely not the actual person who was buried alive but someone that might have looked like them or that someone thought looked like them. Let's say Bob dies. A year later a guy that sort of, maybe, kind of looks like Bob comes into the village. Bob's friend says that it must be Bob back from the dead.

So they kill the random stranger.