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A preserved human heart in a leaden case, discovered in the medieval crypt of a church in Cork, Ireland in the 1860s.
Why yes, this is a photo of an actual preserved human heart. In 1863 it was found enclosed in a lead cyst within the crypt of an old church. It was a workman who discovered it, he found the heart resting on a coffin lid with a metal plate with '1549' inscribed up on it but no name. Creepy.
How long the heart was entombed in the crypt and who it once belonged to remains unknown. It could have been a religious rite. Practicing separate burial of the heart is a funerary practice derives from the mystical belief that the soul and consciousness reside within it. It was considered the noblest part of a human and believed to hold the secret of life and emotion.
