In medieval Europe, people usually hung copper bells on the tombstones of their deceased relatives. This is not a doorbell installed for the tombstone, because this bell must not be touched by people outside, not that it is afraid that the bell will wake up the people in the tomb. Rather, this bell is used when the dead lying in the coffin are alive, and this may be the only means by which they can live.
Hearing this, some people will say, how is it so terrifying, can the bell wake up the dead and bring them back to life? Don't say that this bell can indeed save those buried in the ground "dead" and bring them back to life, this is not a horror novel, it is a real thing.
On many tombstones in medieval Europe, such a bell was hung in order to prevent the accidental "burial alive" of people who were not yet dead.
In ancient Europe, where medicine was underdeveloped, it was common for doctors to mistake comatose patients for death and bury them "alive".
These people, who were determined to be dead, lay in a coffin and were buried, and for various reasons, he woke up again and came back to life. So, he began to struggle and wanted to get out, but everything was so cruel and futile. People were buried several meters into the ground, and the coffin was sealed with nails, and no matter how much the people inside cried and knocked, no one would know. When the air in the coffin is consumed, these living "dead people" will eventually suffocate and become real dead people.
This kind of burying people who are not dead alive has been happening, and there are really many of them, and even some celebrities have not been spared. In the early European Renaissance, a famous theologian and philosopher, Duns Scott, was mistakenly buried. It was after he fell into a coma of serious illness that he was mistakenly judged by doctors to be dead.
Then he was buried, and who knows that after the burial he woke up again. When he woke up, he realized that he was buried, so he cried out desperately and struggled in the coffin, but no matter how hard he tried, no one knew, and he could not climb out.
Later, it was discovered that his grave was a little abnormal, and people reopened his grave and found his body lying outside the coffin without knowing how. I saw that his hands were blurred with blood and flesh, apparently caused by his repeated struggles, tearing up the coffin, trying to climb out and finally failing, which shows how desperate he was at that time.
Later, cholera became popular in Europe, and many people contracted infectious diseases, so more and more people were mistakenly buried, according to statistics, 2700 people were mistakenly buried a year in England and Wales alone. This situation made people at the time full of fear of accidental burial.
In the 18th century, an English woman who fell ill and feared to be buried alive after death gave her house to her doctor, but only if she could never be buried after death, and the doctor also checked her body once a day to see if she was still alive.
When the woman died, fearing that her body would decompose, doctors made it dry, and kept examining her body.
It is precisely because of the frequent occurrence of this phenomenon of misburial that it has attracted great attention. So people racked their brains and tried to develop a variety of coffins in an attempt to save those who were mistakenly buried.
Among them, someone designed a peculiar coffin, called a safety coffin. According to records, the earliest use of this safety coffin was Duke Ferdinand of Braunschweig, Germany.
A small window was first installed in his tomb so that sunlight could shine in and the people inside could wake up. Secondly, pipes leading to the ground were installed to provide fresh air in the coffin; Finally, put two keys in his shroud, and if one day he wakes up, use one to open the coffin and the other to open the cemetery.
This kind of coffin is good, but the design is complex, the cost is high, and the price is naturally expensive, and the average person may not be able to bear it.
Therefore, people thought of a convenient and simple and cheap way, which was to hang a copper bell on the tombstone, tie a rope to the bell, and finally enter the coffin and tie it to the hands or feet of the deceased.
When the "dead" in the grave wake up, you can pull the rope to drive the bell on the tombstone outside, and the crisp bell will tell the people outside, I am not dead.
Therefore, once the bell on the tombstone is heard, people can know that the person in the grave is still alive, so they quickly open the grave and rescue the person who was mistakenly buried.
Although this method has indeed rescued people who have been buried alive, the practical effect is not ideal, but it increases people's fear of being buried alive.
Before his death, Washington, the founding president of the United States, told his secretary many times: "Please leave my body for 3 days before burial." ”
Before his death, Nobel Prize creator Nobel also said: "Be sure to cut my blood vessels and make sure I die before burying me." ”
Even the famous pianist Chopin left his last words before he died: "Coughing will suffocate me, so please dissect me before burying me so that I will not be buried alive." ”
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