page_title: Michael Ranft
section_title: Treatise on the chewing and smacking of the dead in graves
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Ranft / Works / Treatise on the chewing and smacking of the dead in graves
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dies ist ein Scan des Buches: English: This is a scan of the document: Titel: Tractat von dem Kauen und Schmatzen der Todten in Gräbern, worin die wahre Beschaffenheit derer Hungarischen Vampyrs und Blut-Sauger gezeigt, auch alle von dieser Materie bißher zum Vorschein gekommene Schrifften recensiret werden
context_page_description: Michael Ranft, in Latin Michael Ranfftius was a Protestant Lutheran pastor, writer, historian and expert on vampires of the Enlightenment in Germany.
context_section_description: Michael composed a work investigating cases in Germany of dead persons who have devoured the linen and everything that was in reach of their mouth; that people who happen to be nearby would hear sounds such as pigs with low crys and as if growling and grunting. A particular case mentioned was that of a nobleman by the name of Henry, Count of Salm who after being declared dead was entered into the grave alive; eyewitnesses to the accounts heard loud cries during the night at the place he was buried, at the church of the Abbey of Haute-Seille, and the next day they opened his tomb, dis-entered him and discovered that he had gnawed the flesh of his arms. Other cases researched date back to the year 1355 and that to stop the dead from masticating in their graves, traditions sprung throughout Germany in which mounds of dirt would be placed under their chin; in other places a piece of money and a stone was placed into the mouth; yet elsewhere a handkerchief would be tied tightly around the throat.
caption: Engraving Tractat von dem Kauen und Schmatzen der Todten in Gräbern('Treatise on chewing and smacking of the dead in graves').
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