Zalozhnye pokoiniki

Λέγεται και: заложные покойники, unclean dead, zalozhny dead

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Zalozhnye pokoiniki is the ethnographic term for the East Slavic 'unclean dead', those whose manner of death bars them from rest. They were not given normal burial, and in times of drought or plague villagers dug up such bodies and moved or drowned them, a practice churchmen denounced for centuries. The category underlies most Russian and Ukrainian undead, including the upyr and the rusalka. It is a clear statement of the idea, common to zombie folklore worldwide, that a bad death produces a dangerous corpse.1

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Προέλευση

East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)

Ρωσία, Ουκρανία, Λευκορωσία

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Κακός θάνατος ή ταφή

People who die before their time or outside the Church cannot pass on, and the earth is said to refuse their bodies.

Πώς γίνεσαι ένα

Suicides, the drowned, the murdered, drunkards, unbaptised children, sorcerers and witches.

Αδύναμα σημεία

burial away from the community: at crossroads, field boundaries, in forests, swamps or ravines
covering the grave with stones and branches
exhuming the body and throwing it into a swamp to end a drought

σημειώσεις πεδίου

Τι λένε οι πηγές

Zelenin took the word from Vyatka dialect and linked it to 'blocking up' the grave with branches and stones1

Blamed for droughts, epidemics and cattle disease1

Passers-by threw a stone, twig or handful of earth on such graves1

Special paupers' burial grounds (skudelnitsy) were set aside for them1

Rusalki, mavki and the upyr were all understood as kinds of unclean dead1

Πηγές

Unclean dead in Slavic mythology - Wikipedia

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