Child skeleton with padlock on foot found in 17th century graveyard. Burial suggests it was to prevent ghostly return.
“The padlock shows people were afraid of this child after its death,” Dariusz Poliński, the leader of the team, told. He added that this is probably the only known example of such a burial of a child in Europe.
The archaeologists also found a third padlock in the same graveyard, but no complete skeleton nearby. They think that the padlock was attached to another corpse that was later disturbed byThe villagers did not usually bury their dead in the Pień graveyard, as they wished to rest in the holy ground of a church. But the churchyard burial was costly, and only those who had the means could afford it. The rest had to settle for a different place.
This lesser graveyard also seems to have been the place where “abandoned souls” were buried away from the church, even if they had money. For example, another woman's remains with a sickle and the padlock was wealthy: she had gold threads in her clothes and gold flecks on her skull, indicating that she had consumed a medicine containing gold. She was also severely ill, according to the archaeologists.The team is waiting for the results of DNA analysis of both skeletons, which could reveal more details about their identities and causes of death. They also hope to find out if the child was male or female.
The archaeologists said that dead children were especially feared by living people, who thought they might return as ghosts. This fear was even stronger if the child had died suddenly or in an unusual way.
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