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Gjenganger
Detto anche: genganger, gengångare, attergangar, gjenferd, genfærd
The gjenganger is the walking dead of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish folk belief and the direct heir of the saga draugr. Early accounts make it a solid, violent corpse that torments its own family; later ones turn it into a carrier of sickness whose pinch leaves a mark that spreads to the heart. Burial customs across Scandinavia were designed to keep it in the grave. Its slow change from corpse to ghost tracks the wider European retreat of belief in the bodily dead.12
Origine
Scandinavian
Norvegia, Danimarca, SveziaCosa lo causa
Una brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativa
A violent or unfinished death leaves the person unable to rest.Come lo si diventa
Murder victims, murderers, suicides and people who left something undone were expected to return.
Intelligenza
Un po' di intelligenza
Punti deboli
- the sign of the cross painted or carved on the house
- Christian prayers and crucifixes
- carrying the coffin three times round the church before burial
appunti sul campo
Cosa dicono le fonti
Fonti
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Draugr
Asvith
Haugbúi
Hjaðningavíg
Kárr the Old
Sea draug
Ghoul
Pocong
Ro-langs
Toyol
Xiangxi walking corpses
Condenado