“This is Anna Maria Von Stockhausen’s corpse, strapped to keep her coming back from the dead. She was accused of being a witch during the Middle ages and Black Plague. This folklore about Anna was that she was killed about 6 times. She was first hanged and later clawed herself out of the grave.
The town people captured her in a nearby town and quickly drowned her in a lake, by tying her to a plank. The townspeople said they checked her several times after dragging her lifeless body out of the water.
They buried her again, only to see an empty grave 2 days later! It was said they found her rotting corpse dwelling in her old place, with worms, dirt and water spitting out of her. So the townspeople dragged her out, drove a stake in her heart and once again buried.
They placed a guard at her grave and felt she was finally buried for good. The guard failed to check in for 4 days, so a local priest went to find him, it was said that he his rotting body was near his post, with his throat ripped out.
Anna was once again missing. She was then hunted down and captured on the outskirts of town. The angry mob then burned her at the stake, tied to a scarecrow in cornfield. She was then saved by a rainstorm, only to have her bottom half burned. The story had captured the attention of a witch hunter and religious fanatic.
He made his way to see this poor woman, he witnessed the rain and said that god has other plans for her and unlike anyone else he leaned over and said, “Woman, why won’t you die?” A gurgled voice answered him. She said she cursed the townspeople for falsely accusing her.
She also simply asked to be buried away from her late husband that was in the plot next to the one the villagers kept putting her in. She had made one simple request and threatened that if they buried her there, she would keep coming back.
That no man nor element would stop her from spilling the blood of all the villagers! “Tie me down and bury me well away from that man!” They did as she asked
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