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Burial Alive
Humans and animals can be intentionally buried alive (a form of torture and killing), voluntary (such as waterfall, with the intention of highlighting) or accidental (in case of building collapse, slippage field, or mistake in the death of the person).
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- in Greek mythology , according to versions, Zeus would have sent the centaurs that they bury Cn alive.
- in ancient Rome , the vestal virgins were buried alive in case of sex, a crime described as Incestus.
- According to some beliefs, St. John, apostle and evangelist , was buried alive before miraculously disappear.
- In the late Middle Ages and even in modern times, the Middle East, women can be buried for reasons such as murder, adultery or political rebellion References
- "Women in War (fourteenth-fifteenth centuries): a hidden role in the sources?" http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/crahm/revue/tabularia/print.php?dossier=dossier3&file=03dubois.xml
Bibliography
- Dr. Peron-Autret, The Buried alive, Editions Balland , 1979
See also
- The Copiapo Mining Accident (2010) in which 33 miners were trapped in the Chilean mine for over 60 days including 17 days without knowing if he had survived the collapse of the mine is part of its media at its Echoing the ancient fear of burial alive. The survivors had a quasi-undead resurrected.
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