Fayl No. 050 diga 446
Nachzehrer
Wi'aama fahin: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater
The Nachzehrer is the German shroud-eater, a corpse that kills without getting up. By chewing its grave clothes it was thought to drag its surviving relatives after it one by one, by malice or simply from wanting company. The belief gave communities a reason to open graves during outbreaks of disease and helped shape learned debate about the 'masticating dead' in the 18th century. It represents the stationary end of the revenant spectrum, where the corpse is dangerous but does not walk.12
Artii winndaago
1800
The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries olderƳiiɗal
German
Jamus, PolandKo waɗi ɗum
Maayo bonngo walla suuɗaago bonngo
Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.No a wonata gooto
Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.
No ɗum yaaɗi
Ɗum yaaɗataa
It need not leave the grave at all: lying there, it chews its shroud and draws the life out of its kin at a distance.Hakkiilo
Woodi seyo hakkiilo
Ndey ɗum artii hollugo?
Aduna ɓiɗɗo
Jamaanu Hakkunde
1500 haa 1899
1900 haa 1967
1968 haa 1999
2000 haa 2009
2010 haa ñalnde hannde
1800The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older
winndaa ɗo nokku
Ko sorsi ɗin mbi'i
Sorsi
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Strzyga
Upiór
Pień padlocked burial
Shoemaker of Breslau
Wiedergänger
Aufhocker
Jiangshi
Zombi (Haitian)
Strigoi
Vampir (South Slavic)
Abhartach
Arnold Paole