“…Indeed, there have been accounts, often in popular media, of comparable interments from a variety of medieval and postmedieval sites in Europe (see Table in Gregoricka et al () for a list of reported deviant burials associated with vampirism). In addition to coverage in news media outlets, published scientific investigations of such burials exist (Betsinger & Scott, ; Garas, ; Gregoricka et al, ; Jankowski & Kurasiński, ; Koperkiewicz, ; Matczak & Kozlowski, ; Nuzzolese & Borrini, ) but are less common. Matczak and Kozlowski () investigated an early medieval Polish cemetery site to determine whether there was an association of people with particular diseases or disabilities who had received anti‐vampiristic treatment (e.g., decapitation, prone body position, inclusion of large stones) upon their deaths, and found that individuals with pathological conditions such as tuberculosis were not more likely to receive such funerary treatments.…”