The "chewers", vampires that swallow their own shrouds

The fear, the lack of knowledge and the lack of means caused that for centuries it was believed in fantastic beings that altered people's lives and caused all kinds of misfortunes .Witches were the first objective of the inquisitors, but other "beings" were also blamed for any event considered abnormal.Among them we find vampires, and among vampires a special class: The "chewers", vampires that swallow their own shrouds.

The "chewers", vampires that swallow their own shrouds

Dom Agustin Calmet was a French theologian who He lived in the 18th century and dedicated a part of his work to talk and investigate about fantastic beings related to evil .In his book of 1751 , « Treaty on apparitions of spirits and vampires or the apparitions » talks about the chewers, a special type of vampire .Calmet was not the only one who talked about this type of vampire, also in the eighteenth century, Michael Ranft, Lutheran pastor, historian, writer and vampire expert left a writing entitled: « De masticatione mortuorum in Tumulis » (1728) .In that document he speaks of the chewers, the dead who devoured the cloths of their coffins or shrouds .

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Ranft focused his research on Germany , and studied many cases in which strange noises had been heard coming out of the earth's entrails , wherever he had buried someone.According to the witnesses the sounds were very similar to "pig grunts" and when they opened the graves they found that the deceased had tried to swallow their shroud or bed sheets that covered the inside of the coffin.The tradition considered that they were "passive vampires" since they remained in their graves, but caused distance death through some kind of magic , while swallowing his shroud .Those affected used to be relatives of the deceased who died while he or she devoured his mortuary clothes.

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So that a dead man doesn't became a "chewing" vampire, in some places in Europe it was customary to put earth under the jaw so that he could not open his mouth, tie a rope around his throat so that he could not swallow or introduce a coin and a stone into the oral cavity , so that he could not swallow his shroud and cause more deaths.In the grave and there was a "chewer" used to proceed to decapitate the dead .

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The most plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that in preterite times it used to bury the dead with a veil over his head .Many dead bodies at the beginning of decomposition produce gases and possibly if the mouth was open , due to some vacuum effect, It produced a suction that introduced the veil or the shroud into the mouth of the deceased.By opening the grave and seeing that the fabric was in the oral cavity, the myth of the chewing vampires was created.that relatives died within normal since could possibly have been infected .During the plague epidemics is when the stories of «ma circulated sticadores ».

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