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we don't get too many vampire-related posts on HN; the OP here is from a scholarly journal and describes particular burial practices in medieval Poland intended to prevent "re-animation" of the dead. Vlad Tepes (aka "Vlad the Impaler", whose castle still stands in Brasov, Romania) is not surprisingly mentioned in this article. Another nugget from this article, "uber" was at that time (perhaps still is) the word for "witch"

the article's findings--various attributes of these irregular burials--are summarized in spreadsheets available for download, so that you can cross-tabulate deviant burials by for instance, the presence of iron bars on the coffin, whether the corpse was decapitated, and so on.