ZombieWiki
Zombie Wiki / Tots els zombis / Folklore i mite
Illustration of Buckinghamshire revenant
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Expedient núm. 017 de 446

Buckinghamshire revenant

També anomenat: Buckingham ghost
Folklore i miteMort viuS'arrossegaEdat mitjana

This is the first of four walking-corpse cases in William of Newburgh's chronicle. A Buckinghamshire man returns from the grave to his wife's bed, then harasses his family and their livestock until the whole neighbourhood is keeping night watches. The bishop refuses to authorise cremation and has a scroll of absolution laid on the dead man's breast instead, which ends the visits. It is the mildest of Newburgh's cases, with no deaths, and shows the Church trying to manage a popular demand for destroying the corpse.12

⚔️ Lluita-hi
Primer registre
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Origen
Medieval English
Regne Unit
Què el causa
Mai explicat
Newburgh gives no cause beyond the fact of the man's death and burial.
Com es mou
S'arrossega
Returns to his own bed at night and lies on his wife with crushing weight; later walks about in daylight, visible only to some.
Intel·ligència
Una mica d'intel·ligència
Punts febles
  • a letter of absolution from the Bishop of Lincoln placed on the corpse's chest

Quan va aparèixer per primer cop?

Món antic
Edat mitjana
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a avui
1198

William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s

notes de camp

Què diuen les fonts

1

Buried on the eve of Ascension Day and back in his wife's bed the following night12

2

Driven off by the household's watch, he turned on his brothers and then on the animals12

3

Newburgh had the story from Stephen, the local archdeacon12

4

Locals wanted the body dug up and burned; Bishop Hugh of Lincoln judged that indecent12

5

When the tomb was opened to insert the absolution the body lay just as it had been buried12

Podries escapar-t'en?

Classe de velocitat segons com la descriuen les fonts (s'arrossega), no una mesura.

Buckinghamshire revenant uns 3 km/h
Tu, caminant uns 5 km/h
Tu, fent footing uns 10 km/h
Un adult en forma fent un esprint uns 24 km/h
Un ciclista ràpid uns 37 km/h

Fonts

  1. William of Newburgh, History, Book 5 - Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
  2. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)

Cada fet d'aquesta pàgina prové d'aquestes fonts, escrit amb les nostres paraules. Has vist un error? Digues-ho a hello@zombiewiki.app.

Folklore de les mateixes terres

AbhartachIrish, 1870Revenant (medieval England)Medieval English, 1100Berwick revenantMedieval English / Scottish borders, 1198Byland Abbey revenantsMedieval English, 1400Drakelow revenantsMedieval English, 1090HaugbúiNorse, 1250

Mateixa època: Edat mitjana

DraugrNorse, 1250VetalaHindu (Indian), 1070GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300UpiórSlavic, 1100AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200HrapprNorse (Icelandic saga), 1245