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Vampires in Rhode Island
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Mercy Brown Vampire Incident
- After Mercy's death her brother became terribly sick
- vampire suspicions arose
- dug up the bodies of the 3 women
- fed edwin her burned heart and liver
Who was Mercy Brown?
- credited with being the first vampire in America
- mother and sister died first of tuberculosis but she didn't fall ill until about 10 years later
Vampires in New England
- rural areas
- corpses that had been tampered with
- consistent trends with those suspected of being vampires
- 260 cemeteries per 100 sq miles in Rhode island vs 20 per 100 sq miles in Vermont
What is a Vampire?
- a corpse supposed, in European folklore, to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth.