Zalozhnye pokoiniki

Poznat i kao: заложные покойники, unclean dead, zalozhny dead

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Zalozhnye pokoiniki is the ethnographic term for the East Slavic 'unclean dead', those whose manner of death bars them from rest. They were not given normal burial, and in times of drought or plague villagers dug up such bodies and moved or drowned them, a practice churchmen denounced for centuries. The category underlies most Russian and Ukrainian undead, including the upyr and the rusalka. It is a clear statement of the idea, common to zombie folklore worldwide, that a bad death produces a dangerous corpse.1

⚔️ Bori se protiv njega

Podrijetlo

East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)

Rusija, Ukrajina, Bjelorusija

Što ga uzrokuje

Loša smrt ili pokop

People who die before their time or outside the Church cannot pass on, and the earth is said to refuse their bodies.

Kako postaješ jedan od njih

Suicides, the drowned, the murdered, drunkards, unbaptised children, sorcerers and witches.

Slabe točke

burial away from the community: at crossroads, field boundaries, in forests, swamps or ravines
covering the grave with stones and branches
exhuming the body and throwing it into a swamp to end a drought

terenske bilješke