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Revenant (medieval England)

También llamado: revenant, walking dead
Folclore y mitosNo muertoVaríaUna mala muerte o un entierro chapuceroEdad Media

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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Primer registro
1100
Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century
Origen
Medieval English
Reino Unido
Qué lo causa
Una mala muerte o un entierro chapucero
Clerical writers tie the return to a 'bad death': a sinful or excommunicate life, or dying suddenly without confession and last rites.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A person of bad reputation dies unshriven or excommunicate and is buried, but the body does not stay down.
Cómo se mueve
Varía
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.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • decapitation
  • removing and burning the heart
  • dismembering and cremating the body
  • a bishop's written absolution laid on the corpse
  • holy water

¿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
1100

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

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

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

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Revenant (medieval England) unos 10 km/h
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h

Fuentes

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

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