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Hundeprest of Melrose

También llamado: the Dog-Priest, Melrose Abbey revenant
Folclore y mitosNo muertoVaríaUna mala muerte o un entierro chapuceroEdad Media

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

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Primer registro
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Origen
Medieval English / Scottish borders
Reino Unido
Qué lo causa
Una mala muerte o un entierro chapucero
A worldly priest who neglected his calling in life cannot rest in the monastery where he was buried.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A chaplain so devoted to hunting that he was nicknamed 'Hundeprest', the dog-priest.
Cómo se mueve
Varía
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.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • an axe blow from one of the men watching his grave
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes

¿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

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

¿Podrías huir de él?

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

Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h
Hundeprest of Melrose 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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