Gjenganger

Λέγεται και: genganger, gengångare, attergangar, gjenferd, genfærd

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The gjenganger is the walking dead of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish folk belief and the direct heir of the saga draugr. Early accounts make it a solid, violent corpse that torments its own family; later ones turn it into a carrier of sickness whose pinch leaves a mark that spreads to the heart. Burial customs across Scandinavia were designed to keep it in the grave. Its slow change from corpse to ghost tracks the wider European retreat of belief in the bodily dead.1 2

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Scandinavian

Νορβηγία, Δανία, Σουηδία

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Κακός θάνατος ή ταφή

A violent or unfinished death leaves the person unable to rest.

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Murder victims, murderers, suicides and people who left something undone were expected to return.

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Αδύναμα σημεία

the sign of the cross painted or carved on the house
Christian prayers and crucifixes
carrying the coffin three times round the church before burial

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The name means 'again-walker'; German Wiedergänger is the same idea1 2

In Scandinavian tradition it is wholly physical, with no spectral qualities1 2

Later lore made it a spreader of disease through the dødningeknip, the 'dead man's pinch', inflicted on sleepers1 2

Cairns called varp marked death sites, and travellers added a stone or twig in passing1 2

In modern usage it has faded into an ordinary ghost1 2

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