[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Archaeologists in Poland believe they have found a vampire grave on a construction site in the south of the country. Skeletons were found with their heads removed and placed on their legs indicating they had been subjected to an execution ritual designed to ensure the dead stayed dead. Anybody accused of being a vampire in the distant past faced a grim fate."Aye, grrrrim, laddie! Grrrrim!"
Sometimes they would be decapitated, while another punishment involved hanging from a gibbet until decomposition resulted in the head separating from the body. In both cases the head was then laid on the legs of the victim in the hope that an inability to locate their head would hinder the progress of those intent on rising from the grave.
If a vampire was an undead kinda guy, wouldn't the grrrrim fate await him when he was lying in the grave, waiting for nightfall? So while the fate may have been a bit grisly, I doubt if it was in fact grrrrim, unless they caught the creature whilst actively prowling or flying around in bat form. If he was in human form and didn't turn into a bat and fly away at the first hint of "There's Wladyslav! Get the stake!" he wasn't much of a vampire, was he?