In our local c℮metery, there is a grαve covered by something strange.

Mortsafes—iron cages placed over graves in the 18th and 19th centuries—weren’t superstition but protection. With medical schools desperate for bodies, grave robbers dug up the newly buried, forcing families to defend their dead with metal barriers until decomposition made the bodies useless. What looks like a strange relic today is proof that even in death, people had to be guarded.