Archaeologists discovered the remains of a female "vampire" this week at a cemetery in Poland,

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according to researchers. At a graveyard in the town of Pie, the Polish archaeologists discovered the

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bones of a woman who had a sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her foot.

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Ancient myths claimed that the farming implement would stop a person who had passed away who

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was assumed to be a vampire from reviving. The groundbreaking discovery was made in late

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August by a research team led by Professor Dariusz Polinski of the Nicolaus Copernicus

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University in Torun. The research team's representative, Magdalena Zagrodzka, stated in an interview

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with the Polish Press Agency PAP that the human bones also had a silk headgear that was made

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with gold or silver thread. The cap, according to Zagrodzka, is proof of the deceased's high social

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rank, while the padlock and sickle are associated with superstitions from the 17th century.

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