November 1st is a bank holiday in Poland and remained free of work even during Communist times, while the following day is not. The Zaduszki custom of honouring the dead thus corresponds with All ...

People attend a ceremony of the Day of the Dead in Berlin, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) A couple arrive ...

As All Saint’s Day, the Polish Catholic celebration of the dead, approaches, most families are looking forward to visiting their loved ones who have passed. But a secret lurks beneath it: a ...

Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s ...

With a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her left big toe, the corpse of a young woman found in northern Poland would ...

The sickle was deliberately placed across the neck of the deceased, seemingly to restrain the dead woman ... only one had been found in the whole of Poland. Unusually, the padlock was found ...

A POLISH funeral home was forced to apologise after a dead body tumbled out from a hearse ... moving the body in Stalowa Wola, southeastern Poland when the vehicle's electric lock failed, causing ...

The face of a suspected 'vampire', who was buried with restraints to prevent her returning from the dead, has been reconstructed ... Copernicus University in Poland. She was entombed in an ...

It's the time of year - tradition says - when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted.

The face of a suspected 'vampire', who was buried with restraints to prevent her returning from the dead, has been reconstructed by scientists ... from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. She ...