How the Polish Buried Their Vampires | RealClearScience
"For instance, in the 1600s and 1700s in Drawsko Pomorskie, a town in northwestern Poland, a suspected vampire was buried with a sickle across his body and/or a stone in his mouth. If the undead was to attempt a nightly prowl, the sickle would disembowel or decapitate him; if that didn't work, the stone would prevent him from biting anybody. Problem solved".
