"The burial clearly shows signs of anti-vampire practices, which were aimed at stopping the dead from rising again." While ...
"The most common way to do this was to destroy the corpse of those thought to be most at risk of becoming a vampire, specifically by driving a stake through the corpse's heart. Based on ...
Vampire fiction versus folklore As a body decomposes ... and consuming blood from the corpse were all ways to prevent someone from rising from the grave. One folklorist saw vampires as scapegoats ...