@misc{Kurasiński_Tomasz_A_2018, author={Kurasiński, Tomasz and Skóra, Kalina and Gayduchlik, Viktor}, volume={70}, copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license}, address={Kraków}, journal={Sprawozdania Archeologiczne}, howpublished={online}, year={2018}, publisher={Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk}, language={eng}, abstract={This paper focuses on a ritual of covering the dead with seeds of plants: poppy and field mustard. This habit is recorded in Slavic folkloristic-ethnographic sources and is considered as a so-called anti-demonic practice. In archaeological literature, this habit is not usually mentioned among the criteria of “atypical” burials, perhaps because physical means of restraining the “dangerous” dead are more straightforward to demonstrate than psychic ones. The paper discusses burials from early medieval cemeteries that contain the aforementioned plant seeds. Due to their fecundity, such seeds are hardly considered countable and for this reason, among others, in folk imagination they were believed to possess apotropaic and magical traits}, type={Text}, title={A grain against a vampire? Some remarks on so-called anti-vampire practices in the light of archaeological and folkloristic-ethnographic data}, URL={http://www.rcin.org.pl/Content/67488/PDF/WA308_87769_P244_A-grain-against-a-va_I.pdf}, keywords={anti-demonic practices, Slavic folkloristic-ethnographic sources, seeds of poppy and field mustard, atypical burials, early medieval cemeteries, apotropaic traits}, }