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Nachzehrer

Известен още като: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater
Фолклор и митовеНемъртъвЕдва се движиЛоша смърт или погребение1500–1899

The Nachzehrer is the German shroud-eater, a corpse that kills without getting up. By chewing its grave clothes it was thought to drag its surviving relatives after it one by one, by malice or simply from wanting company. The belief gave communities a reason to open graves during outbreaks of disease and helped shape learned debate about the 'masticating dead' in the 18th century. It represents the stationary end of the revenant spectrum, where the corpse is dangerous but does not walk.12

⚔️ Бий се с него
Първо записване
1800
The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older
Произход
German
Германия, Полша
Какво го причинява
Лоша смърт или погребение
Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.
Как ставаш такъв
Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.
Как се движи
Едва се движи
It need not leave the grave at all: lying there, it chews its shroud and draws the life out of its kin at a distance.
Интелект
Малко интелект

Кога се появява за първи път?

Древният свят
Средновековие
1500–1899
1900–1967
1968–1999
2000–2009
2010 до днес
1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

бележки от терен

Какво казват източниците

1

The name means roughly 'after-devourer'12

2

It gnaws its own shroud and clothing, which was treated as the commonest sign12

3

Other signs on exhumation: open eyes or mouth, red lips, a soft body, a thumb clasped in the opposite hand12

4

Often, though not always, blamed for epidemics12

5

Belief centred on northern Germany, with reports from Silesia and Bavaria12

6

Michael Ranft devoted a 1734 treatise to the 'chewing and smacking of the dead in their graves'12

Източници

  1. Nachzehrer - Wikipedia
  2. Wiederg%C3%A4nger - Wikipedia

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Същата епоха: 1500–1899