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Sally the Teen-Aged Vampire

Sally the Teen-Aged Vampire

History for Self-Esteem

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Oct 28, 2022
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It’s so easy to feel hopeless and discouraged about the fate of man. To hear ourselves talk about it, our world is overrun by manipulative lies the likes of which we have never seen before. Surely this means the end of civilization.

So once again we will offer a glimpse of the human condition in times past to make you feel better about today.

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Sally the Teenaged Vampire was discovered by archeologists recently in a grave in Poland. We know she was a vampire because of the little extra things put into her coffin to prevent her from rising out of the ground to feast on villagers at night.

In her coffin, a sickle was placed on her neck and a lock on her toe - what 17th century people did to keep vampires from rising.

You can see from the photo why the locals might think she’s a vampire. Lead archaeologist Professor Dariusz Poliński told USA TODAY

“The sickle was not laid flat but placed on the neck in such a way that if the deceased had tried to get up most likely the head would have b…

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