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Messages in the Macabre: Examining Causes of Death in Bog Bodies

Messages in the Macabre: Examining Causes of Death in Bog Bodies. Tollund Man, found 1950, Denmark . noose. Tollund Man. Windeby Girl. band around eyes, shorn hair. sphagnum moss. body.

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Messages in the Macabre: Examining Causes of Death in Bog Bodies

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  1. Messages in the Macabre: Examining Causes of Death in Bog Bodies Tollund Man, found 1950, Denmark

  2. noose Tollund Man

  3. Windeby Girl band around eyes, shorn hair

  4. sphagnum moss body

  5. “The coward, the unwarlike, the man stained with abominable vices, is plunged into the mire of the morass, with a hurdle put over him…Infamy [they think] ought to be buried out of sight.” “Afterwards the vestments and the divinity herself are purified in a secret lake. Slaves perform the rite, who are instantly swallowed up by its waters. Hence arises a mysterious terror and a pious ignorance concerning the nature of that which is seen only by men doomed to die.” —Tacitus, Germania Bog in Silkeborg, Denmark

  6. Grauballe Man

  7. “Strange things happen in the bog. There will always be some ambiguity. I sort of like the idea that there’s some stuff we’ll really never know.” –Niels Lynnerup, Danish forensic investigator

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