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18th-century monk's anus was stuffed with wood chips and fabric to mummify him, researchers discover

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Austrian mummified body was found in a church crypt in St. Thomas am Blasenstein , a small village in Austria .

The mummy was assumed to have been the preserved remains of a parish vicar named Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg .

In 2000 , an X-ray analysis in 2000 suggested his mummy contained a poison capsule.

Researchers conducted a new analysis, using multiple techniques to quash rumors about Sidler 's puzzling death.

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