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Now, using DNA, 3D printing and modelling clay, a team of scientists has reconstructed Zosia's 400-year-old face, revealing the human story buried by supernatural beliefs.
The story of Katarzyna Paprocka was shown in a literary form in a book Czarownice z Pomorza i Kujaw (pol. Witches from Pomerania and Kujawy) Anna Koprowska-Głowacka. . According to the short story, the first husband of the woman was Daniel Nosowski , [9] and the court documents, which were transported to Warsaw, caused a great
Found in an unmarked cemetery in the village of Pien, the 400-year-old woman was thought to be deemed a vampire and those who buried her placed the farming tool across her throat, according to ...
The witch trials in Poland started later than in most of Europe, not beginning in earnest until the second half of the 17th century, but they also lasted longer than they did elsewhere. Despite being formally banned in 1776, the law was not evenly enforced for the next half century, even after the witch trials had ended or become a rarity in ...
Helena Antonia was born in Liège. [2] [3] [4] Her parentage is not documented, but she was likely born to commoner parents.Her life is described in the chronicle of Christian August Vulpius from 1811.
While examining a Glencoe hunting lodge associated with a 17th century Scottish clan chief, Ankers turned her attention to a grand fireplace. ... 11,000-year-old human remains show evidence of ...
Marina Mniszech or Mnishek (Polish: Maryna Mniszech, IPA: [maˈrɨna ˈmɲiʂɛk]; Russian: Марина Мнишек, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ˈmnʲiʂɨk]; c. 1588 – 24 December 1614) was a Polish noblewoman who was the tsaritsa of all Russia in May 1606 during the Time of Troubles as the wife of False Dmitry I.
A ceramic pot turned into a jackpot for a woman on a walk in the Kutnohorsk Region of the Czech Republic. While out on a stroll, the woman happened upon a roughly 900-year-old stash of more than ...