400-year-old "vampire" child found padlocked in its grave to prevent an undead escape

It was very funny to me, and also not surprising, that the scene was used in an article titled “How Do You Know She’s a Witch?”: Witches, Cunning Folk, and Competition in Denmark" in the journal Western Folklore (v.59 no.3/4, 2000):

Already in the seventeenth question, “How do you know she’s a witch?” is not, “She turned me into a newt,” or some other example of physically verifiable maleficium, but rather, “Because I say so.”

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