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The vampires thought to be chewing through their shrouds were sometimes referred to as the nachtzehrer (a German term meaning "night-waster").
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The nachtzehrer is a dead body kept in a kind of liminal life by supernatural forces or Satan.
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In our excavations, the burial is linked with the nachtzehrer superstition not only because the skeleton is in a plague grave, but also because of the brick in the mouth.
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How did you connect the nachtzehrer legend with the particular burial you found?
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The text describes some distinctive habits of this revenant: the nachtzehrer usually eats the cloth or funerary shroud in which it is wrapped, and its chewing causes noises similar to a pig while it is eating.
hernesheir commented on the word nachtzehrer
A term for the vampire and zombie lovers.
October 18, 2011