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Drakelow revenants

Auch bekannt als: the two peasants of Stapenhill
Folklore und MythenUntotVariiertEin FluchMittelalter

The Drakelow case is among the earliest detailed walking-dead reports from England. Two fugitive peasants die suddenly, return carrying their own coffins and bring a deadly sickness to the village of Drakelow. With episcopal permission the bodies are dug up, beheaded and their hearts cut out and burned. The procedure, especially the head laid between the legs, matches so-called deviant burials that archaeologists find across medieval Europe.12

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Erstmals belegt
1090
Events of about 1090, recorded by Abbot Geoffrey of Burton in the early 12th century
Herkunft
Medieval English
Vereinigtes Königreich
Was es auslöst
Ein Fluch
In the abbot's telling, the men were struck dead after wronging Burton Abbey and its saint.
Wie man einer wird
Two runaway peasants of the abbey who died suddenly and were buried.
Wie er sich bewegt
Variiert
They walk through the village at night with their coffins on their shoulders, sometimes in the shape of bears or dogs, shouting at the houses.
Intelligenz
Etwas Intelligenz
Schwachstellen
  • exhumation
  • decapitation, with the heads placed between the legs
  • tearing out the hearts and burning them

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

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1090

Events of about 1090, recorded by Abbot Geoffrey of Burton in the early 12th century

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

1

They reappeared on the very evening of their burial12

2

Villagers sickened and died after the visits12

3

Three men obtained the bishop's permission to open the graves12

4

The bodies were found intact12

5

The sick recovered but the survivors abandoned Drakelow12

Könntest du ihm davonlaufen?

Tempoklasse nach der Beschreibung der Quellen (variiert), keine Messung.

Du, gehend etwa 5 km/h
Du, joggend etwa 10 km/h
Drakelow revenants etwa 10 km/h
Ein fitter Erwachsener im Sprint etwa 24 km/h
Ein schneller Radfahrer etwa 37 km/h

Quellen

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

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Gleiche Epoche: Mittelalter