In one account, from 1674, a dead man rose from his tomb to assault his relatives; when his grave was opened, the corpse was unnaturally preserved and bore traces of fresh blood.
In 1746, a Benedictine monk named Antoine Augustin Calmet published a popular treatise that sought, among other things, to distinguish real revenants from frauds.
Four centuries later, archaeologists in Europe have discovered the first physical evidence of a suspected child revenant.
“The padlock would have been locked to the big toe,” Dariusz Poliński, the lead archaeologist on the study, said through a translator.
Sometime after burial, the grave was desecrated and all the bones removed except those of the lower legs.
Persons:
—, Antoine Augustin Calmet, revenant, Nicolaus, Dariusz Poliński
Organizations:
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Locations:
Poland, Europe, Pień, Polish, Bydgoszcz, Toruń