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Long story short: anti-zombie protection
Yeah, the blade on the throat is the same as a stake in the heart...
"This body might come alive, so we're making sure"
If a body reanimated, the blade was supposed to just cut the head off. But the move from actual "just in case" routine decapitation and just putting a blade there is a pretty huge leap.
So yeah, primative, but primative because they were advancing, this was the line between an actual decapitation you believed was required, and a ritual just to reassure everyone we didn't have to keep mutilating every dead body. If modern people started doing it because of legitimate zombie concerns, it would be different.
I know what you mean by modern, but it should be asserted that this happened in the modern era
Could be they thought she was a witch or changeling? Cold iron has long been thought to block magic.
Kinda makes you think that maybe you shouldn't treat someone so horribly that you believe they will be driven to remain in this world beyond death in order to take revenge upon you.