Archaeologists first made the grim discovery in 2022 and have been studying the remains to understand why she and others were ...

Her remains date back 400 years. At that time, all three items were believed to protect humans from vampires. Slavic folklore ...

“They were quite clear that, in popular local legend, the vampire had three characteristics — it was a revenant, feasted on the living, and was contagious. The Austrian definition shaped the ...