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Sea draug

Aussi appelé: draug, draugen, sjødraug, havdraug
Folklore et mythesMort-vivantVariableUne mauvaise mort ou un enterrement bâclé1500 à 1899

In post-medieval Norway the word draug narrowed from any walking corpse to the dead of the sea. The sea draug is the body of a drowned fisherman, headless or seaweed-headed, crewing half a boat and announcing the death of anyone who sees it. A well-known northern legend has it chased through a churchyard by the properly buried dead. It shows how the saga revenant survived by attaching itself to the commonest violent death of a fishing society.1

⚔️ L'affronter
Première mention
1741
Hans Egede mentions 'the Drow' (drauen) as a sea spectre in a book published in 1741
Origine
Norwegian
Norvège
Ce qui le provoque
Une mauvaise mort ou un enterrement bâclé
In later coastal folklore it is a drowned fisherman who never received burial in consecrated ground.
Comment on en devient un
A man lost at sea whose body was not recovered and buried in Christian soil.
Comment il se déplace
Variable
Sails in half a boat with ragged sails, or comes ashore; it tries to pull seafarers under.
Points faibles
  • the churchyard dead, who in one legend drive it off with coffin boards and seaweed

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
1741

Hans Egede mentions 'the Drow' (drauen) as a sea spectre in a book published in 1741

notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

1

Wears a fisherman's leather or oilskin clothing and has a bundle of seaweed where its head should be1

2

Seeing it, or its half-boat, foretells drowning1

3

The belief is strongest in northern Norway, where fishing deaths were common1

4

The coat of arms of Bø in Nordland shows its half-boat1

5

Households left out food and 'draug-beer' at Christmas for it and other visitors1

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
Sea draug environ 10 km/h
Un adulte en forme qui sprinte environ 24 km/h
Un cycliste rapide environ 37 km/h

Sources

  1. Draugr - Wikipedia

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Du folklore des mêmes contrées

DraugrNorse, 1250GjengangerScandinavianHaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / GermanicKárr the OldNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300The völva of Baldrs draumarNorse, 950

Même époque : 1500 à 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732