Talk:Mercy Brown vampire incident

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strange that they would attribute 2 months in a cold tomb to the non-decomposition of a 4 year old corpse. especially considering the fact that the other 2 bodies were almost entirely decomposed. 2 months shouldn't make that much of a difference. then again, i'm not a doctor.Tenebrae 16:06, 29 May 2006 (UTC)Chaosphere

My understanding is that Mercy died four years after her STEP-sister and mother, and was exhumed only a few months after her death. --Dub8lad1 00:05, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

While the original article told a good story, some of the details did not match the known history. I tried to make only such changes as to bring the two together. MacPhilbin 22:01, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

The story doesn't maake much sense - they named Mercy as the cause of her brotehrs illness, when it says he got sick before her? Either the dates or wrong or they were just plain crazy. Naynay104 (talk) 01:31, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

I have laid on her grave on halloween night

Pidgeonman 17:32, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

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"Friends and neighbors of the family believed that one of the dead family members was a vampire (although they did not use that name)" What *did* they call it then? 24.131.238.118 (talk) 04:19, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

i came here to ask the same thing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.239.122.131 (talk) 13:16, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

There doesn't appear to be a name attached to it. The reporter apparently couldn't clarify that point. The ritual is described in the Providence Journal as the "old theory." --mikeu talk 22:55, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

"The Providence Journal, noting that “all mention of ‘the vampire’ is omitted from this account” because the local correspondent “failed to get to the bottom of the superstition,” placed the Mercy Brown event in the context of European vampire practices by quoting the Century Dictionary’s definition of vampire..."

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