Residents of North Yorkshire, from the 1000s to the 1300s, were extremely afraid of the dead rising again to attack the living. So afraid, in fact, that villagers would dismember, decapitate, burn, and otherwise mutilate the corpses of their friends and neighbors before burying them. They generally mutilated the bodies shortly after they died, when the bones were still soft. Imagine doing that to your grandma!
the real question is: has anyone yet written a novel about WHY they were so concerned about the dead getting back up?
That would be Bram Stoker’s Dracula, yo. Whitby, where the second and third acts are set, is in North Yorkshire. I go there on holiday for the fossil hunting, but there’s a massive goth scene and ghost walks all set around this fictional novel.
(…Which I know was contemporary victoriana and not medieval, but it might be a thread to pull if you’re ever down to research it.)
25 junho 2018
This Remote Part of England Was Uniquely Terrified of Zombies
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