VAMPIRES IN NEW ENGLAND (Part 7 on Vermont Trip) - They Exhumed Him & Burned His Heart in the Forge.

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“Vampire panic” was alive and well in New England, and they were all too familiar with methods for dealing with the undead. Turning over a body in the grave was the most innocent of solutions, but many resorted to burning the organs, inhaling the smoke or consuming the ash from the organs, or decapitation. But for the villagers of Woodstock, examining the heart was the only way to be sure. When the brothers of the deceased Fredrick Ransom came down with the same affliction, the family and villagers rushed to the graveyard to exhume the young man's corpse. If his heart contained fresh blood, it was removed, taken to the Village Green, and burned.

According to Daniel Ransom, a younger brother who was 3 years old at the time of Frederick’s death, the family had a susceptibility to tuberculosis, which resulted in loss of appetite, a wan appearance, weakness and fatigue – all the hallmarks of what they thought then was vampirism.

“It was said that if the heart of one of the family who died of consumption was taken out and burned, others would be free from it,” he wrote. “And Father, having some faith in the remedy, had the heart of Frederick taken out after he had been buried, and it was burned in Captain Pearson’s blacksmith forge.”

Sadly, the countermeasure failed, and some of Daniel’s remaining family succumbed to the sickness.

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