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Revenant (medieval England)

També anomenat: revenant, walking dead
Folklore i miteMort viuVariaUna mala mort o un mal enterramentEdat mitjana

Twelfth-century English chroniclers, among them Geoffrey of Burton, Walter Map and William of Newburgh, record a cluster of cases in which a buried corpse walked at night and brought death to its neighbours. The stories are told as recent local news, with named bishops and archdeacons called in to rule on them. The remedies, digging up the body and beheading, burning or absolving it, are the same ones later used against vampires in central Europe. Scholars read these revenants as the product of a failed death, a person stuck between the living and the dead who has to be forcibly moved on.12

⚔️ Lluita-hi
Primer registre
1100
Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century
Origen
Medieval English
Regne Unit
Què el causa
Una mala mort o un mal enterrament
Clerical writers tie the return to a 'bad death': a sinful or excommunicate life, or dying suddenly without confession and last rites.
Com et converteixes en un
A person of bad reputation dies unshriven or excommunicate and is buried, but the body does not stay down.
Com es mou
Varia
The corpse leaves its grave at night, roams streets and houses, often with dogs barking after it, and is back in the tomb by dawn.
Intel·ligència
Una mica d'intel·ligència
Punts febles
  • decapitation
  • removing and burning the heart
  • dismembering and cremating the body
  • a bishop's written absolution laid on the corpse
  • holy water

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
1100

Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century

notes de camp

Què diuen les fonts

1

The chroniclers describe intact, sometimes blood-filled bodies, not apparitions12

2

Its presence corrupts the air and is blamed for epidemics12

3

William of Newburgh thought the cases were a recent phenomenon and too numerous to list12

4

Bishops disagreed over the cure: Hugh of Lincoln preferred absolution to burning12

5

Later accounts, such as a Clydesdale case in the Lanercost chronicle, show the belief persisting unevenly12

Podries escapar-t'en?

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

Tu, caminant uns 5 km/h
Tu, fent footing uns 10 km/h
Revenant (medieval England) uns 10 km/h
Un adult en forma fent un esprint uns 24 km/h
Un ciclista ràpid uns 37 km/h

Fonts

  1. Revenant - Wikipedia
  2. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)

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