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Buckinghamshire revenant

También llamado: Buckingham ghost
Folclore y mitosNo muertoSe arrastraEdad Media

This is the first of four walking-corpse cases in William of Newburgh's chronicle. A Buckinghamshire man returns from the grave to his wife's bed, then harasses his family and their livestock until the whole neighbourhood is keeping night watches. The bishop refuses to authorise cremation and has a scroll of absolution laid on the dead man's breast instead, which ends the visits. It is the mildest of Newburgh's cases, with no deaths, and shows the Church trying to manage a popular demand for destroying the corpse.12

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Primer registro
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Origen
Medieval English
Reino Unido
Qué lo causa
Nunca explicado
Newburgh gives no cause beyond the fact of the man's death and burial.
Cómo se mueve
Se arrastra
Returns to his own bed at night and lies on his wife with crushing weight; later walks about in daylight, visible only to some.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • a letter of absolution from the Bishop of Lincoln placed on the corpse's chest

¿Cuándo apareció por primera vez?

Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
1198

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

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

1

Buried on the eve of Ascension Day and back in his wife's bed the following night12

2

Driven off by the household's watch, he turned on his brothers and then on the animals12

3

Newburgh had the story from Stephen, the local archdeacon12

4

Locals wanted the body dug up and burned; Bishop Hugh of Lincoln judged that indecent12

5

When the tomb was opened to insert the absolution the body lay just as it had been buried12

¿Podrías huir de él?

Clase de velocidad según cómo la describen las fuentes (se arrastra), no una medición.

Buckinghamshire revenant unos 3 km/h
Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h

Fuentes

  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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