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Hundeprest of Melrose

Aussi appelé: the Dog-Priest, Melrose Abbey revenant
Folklore et mythesMort-vivantVariableUne mauvaise mort ou un enterrement bâcléMoyen Âge

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

⚔️ L'affronter
Première mention
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Origine
Medieval English / Scottish borders
Royaume-Uni
Ce qui le provoque
Une mauvaise mort ou un enterrement bâclé
A worldly priest who neglected his calling in life cannot rest in the monastery where he was buried.
Comment on en devient un
A chaplain so devoted to hunting that he was nicknamed 'Hundeprest', the dog-priest.
Comment il se déplace
Variable
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.
Intelligence
Un peu d'intelligence
Points faibles
  • an axe blow from one of the men watching his grave
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes

Quand est-il apparu pour la première fois ?

Monde antique
Moyen Âge
1500 à 1899
1900 à 1967
1968 à 1999
2000 à 2009
2010 à aujourd'hui
1198

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

notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

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

Pourriez-vous le distancer ?

Classe de vitesse d'après la description des sources (variable), pas une mesure.

Vous, en marchant environ 5 km/h
Vous, en jogging environ 10 km/h
Hundeprest of Melrose environ 10 km/h
Un adulte en forme qui sprinte environ 24 km/h
Un cycliste rapide environ 37 km/h

Sources

  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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