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Buckinghamshire revenant

Detto anche: Buckingham ghost
Folklore e mitiNon mortoArrancaMedioevo

This is the first of four walking-corpse cases in William of Newburgh's chronicle. A Buckinghamshire man returns from the grave to his wife's bed, then harasses his family and their livestock until the whole neighbourhood is keeping night watches. The bishop refuses to authorise cremation and has a scroll of absolution laid on the dead man's breast instead, which ends the visits. It is the mildest of Newburgh's cases, with no deaths, and shows the Church trying to manage a popular demand for destroying the corpse.12

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Prima attestazione
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Origine
Medieval English
Regno Unito
Cosa lo causa
Mai spiegato
Newburgh gives no cause beyond the fact of the man's death and burial.
Come si muove
Arranca
Returns to his own bed at night and lies on his wife with crushing weight; later walks about in daylight, visible only to some.
Intelligenza
Un po' di intelligenza
Punti deboli
  • a letter of absolution from the Bishop of Lincoln placed on the corpse's chest

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Mondo antico
Medioevo
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Dal 2000 al 2009
Dal 2010 a oggi
1198

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

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

1

Buried on the eve of Ascension Day and back in his wife's bed the following night12

2

Driven off by the household's watch, he turned on his brothers and then on the animals12

3

Newburgh had the story from Stephen, the local archdeacon12

4

Locals wanted the body dug up and burned; Bishop Hugh of Lincoln judged that indecent12

5

When the tomb was opened to insert the absolution the body lay just as it had been buried12

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Classe di velocità dalla descrizione delle fonti (arranca), non una misura.

Buckinghamshire revenant circa 3 km/h
Tu, che cammini circa 5 km/h
Tu, che corri circa 10 km/h
Un adulto allenato in sprint circa 24 km/h
Un ciclista veloce circa 37 km/h

Fonti

  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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