Swedish scientists have reconstructed the face of a 400-year-old woman buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck because people in her time believed she was a vampire.

Scientists have recreated the face of a 17th-century ‘vampire’ woman in Poland. credit: Skeleton of Sozopol, Sofia, wikimedia commons / Bin im Garten CC BY-SA 3.0 Scientists in Poland have recreated ...

Vampires, creatures of myth and legend that have become iconic pop culture monsters ... relatable reason why women might offer their necks to a vampire beyond a supernatural allure.

Unfortunately, one young woman in Poland fell victim to this heightened tension. Her burial, discovered near the village of Pień in 2022, contained a sickle placed across her neck and a padlock on her ...

Full disclosure, as a child I kept my bedroom window ajar even in winter in the doomed hope that a vampire would be kind ... top billing going to her iconic, cat clawed, crystal embellished ...

Not the forbidden touch of another woman but blood ... Edgar, and it pits the famous vampire hunter and his children against the progeny of Dracula. It has lines like “receiving a psychic ...

The face of a suspected 'vampire', who was buried with restraints ... the team of scientists recreated what they think the 400-year-old woman's face looked like. Zosia, as she was named by locals ...

But the most famous (or infamous ... sense of dignity William Marshall gives the titular vampire, Prince Mamuwalde. Even as he stalks the woman he believes to be the reincarnation of his lost ...