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⚰️ VAMPIRE BURIALS, MASCHALISMOS, & OTHER APOTROPAIC BURIAL RITUALS 🪦
a morbid little collection of 25 historically certified ways of preventing the dead from rising as vampires, draugr, ghosts, or other undead beasties.
poster & 1 - 10 • 11 - 25 • zine & poster
#the scattering poppy seeds/grain/millet in particular is because the vampire can't get up until it's counted them all lol#same with covering them with a net- they have to count all the knots#it was always fun to reveal in conference talks that sesame street had a folklore-accurate vampire bc the attendees would go nuts