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Hundeprest of Melrose

Auch bekannt als: the Dog-Priest, Melrose Abbey revenant
Folklore und MythenUntotVariiertEin schlechter Tod oder ein schlechtes BegräbnisMittelalter

The Hundeprest is the walking dead priest of Melrose, recorded by William of Newburgh. Buried in the monastery, he rose at night and terrified his former mistress until a party of four undertook to watch the grave. One of them drove an axe into the corpse when it charged him, and at dawn the wounded, bleeding body was exhumed, burned and its ashes scattered. The story is unusual for showing a revenant physically injured in a fight.12

⚔️ Gegen ihn kämpfen
Erstmals belegt
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Herkunft
Medieval English / Scottish borders
Vereinigtes Königreich
Was es auslöst
Ein schlechter Tod oder ein schlechtes Begräbnis
A worldly priest who neglected his calling in life cannot rest in the monastery where he was buried.
Wie man einer wird
A chaplain so devoted to hunting that he was nicknamed 'Hundeprest', the dog-priest.
Wie er sich bewegt
Variiert
Rises at night; the sanctity of the monks keeps him from doing harm inside the abbey, so he roams outside and groans around a noblewoman's bedchamber.
Intelligenz
Etwas Intelligenz
Schwachstellen
  • an axe blow from one of the men watching his grave
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

Antike
Mittelalter
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1900 bis 1967
1968 bis 1999
2000 bis 2009
2010 bis heute
1198

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

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

1

He had been chaplain to a noble lady and haunted her after death12

2

Two friars and two strong young men kept an armed vigil at the grave12

3

When three went off to warm themselves, the corpse attacked the one left alone12

4

Wounded, it fled back to a tomb that opened to receive it and closed again12

5

In the morning the body was dug up with the axe wound in it and the grave full of blood12

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
Hundeprest of Melrose etwa 10 km/h
Ein fitter Erwachsener im Sprint etwa 24 km/h
Ein schneller Radfahrer etwa 37 km/h

Quellen

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

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