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Revenant (medieval England)

Auch bekannt als: revenant, walking dead
Folklore und MythenUntotVariiertEin schlechter Tod oder ein schlechtes BegräbnisMittelalter

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

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Erstmals belegt
1100
Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century
Herkunft
Medieval English
Vereinigtes Königreich
Was es auslöst
Ein schlechter Tod oder ein schlechtes Begräbnis
Clerical writers tie the return to a 'bad death': a sinful or excommunicate life, or dying suddenly without confession and last rites.
Wie man einer wird
A person of bad reputation dies unshriven or excommunicate and is buried, but the body does not stay down.
Wie er sich bewegt
Variiert
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.
Intelligenz
Etwas Intelligenz
Schwachstellen
  • decapitation
  • removing and burning the heart
  • dismembering and cremating the body
  • a bishop's written absolution laid on the corpse
  • holy water

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

Antike
Mittelalter
1500 bis 1899
1900 bis 1967
1968 bis 1999
2000 bis 2009
2010 bis heute
1100

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

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

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

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
Revenant (medieval England) etwa 10 km/h
Ein fitter Erwachsener im Sprint etwa 24 km/h
Ein schneller Radfahrer etwa 37 km/h

Quellen

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

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