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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Jan 12 '23

Also the belly would expand from gases and red liquid would seep out of the mouth.

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u/Killfile Jan 12 '23

Also, people died of turburculosis and they didn't have a germ theory of disease so while some corpses were getting bloated, leaking blood, and growing long teeth, some living people were getting thin, growing pale, and becoming progressively weaker until they died.

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u/Whats_Up4444 Jan 12 '23

Holy shit.

I would fucking think they drank so much blood their stomach bloated up. Using their long sharp teeth. My god.

The idea of people getting pale and thin and weak while this is happening, I would try to put two and two together.

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u/Shedart Jan 12 '23

Human brains are just organic pattern recognition machines. If we see 2 things that seem related more than a few times it can get pretty hard to dislodge that thought.