Cadaveric bleeding

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Deadly haemorrhage was the widespread belief in the Middle Ages that the body of a murdered person would start bleeding again if the murderer was nearby. This idea is probably a holdover from the belief of the Teutons .

In medieval literature one finds the corpse bleeding in the Iwein epic and in the Nibelungenlied . At Iwein the body of Laudine's dead husband is bleeding , whom Iwein injured so badly in the fight that he died, which means that she knows that Iwein must still be in the castle. In the Song of the Nibelungs, Siegfried's body bleeds again when Hagen von Tronje is present at the laying out of the bodies .