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Welsh revenant of Hereford

Detto anche: William Laudun's revenant, Walter Map's Welshman
Folklore e mitiNon mortoVariaUna brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativaMedioevo

Walter Map tells of a dead Welshman who walked nightly near Hereford and summoned his neighbours to death by name. The bishop's prescribed cure of holy water and a cut neck failed, and the haunting ended only when the knight William Laudun pursued the corpse to its grave and beheaded it. The name-calling motif turns up again centuries later in the Greek vrykolakas. Map also records gentler cases settled by a cross on the grave or priestly absolution.12

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Prima attestazione
1185
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192
Origine
Medieval English / Welsh borders
Regno Unito
Cosa lo causa
Una brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativa
Map says the man died 'unchristianly'.
Come lo si diventa
A Welshman who died without a Christian end.
Come si muove
Varia
Walks back from his grave into the village each night and calls residents by name.
Intelligenza
Furbo
Punti deboli
  • holy water on the body and grave (tried first, and failed)
  • splitting the head from the neck with a sword

Quando è comparso per la prima volta?

Mondo antico
Medioevo
Dal 1500 al 1899
Dal 1900 al 1967
Dal 1968 al 1999
Dal 2000 al 2009
Dal 2010 a oggi
1185

Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

1

Everyone he named fell ill and died within three days12

2

The English knight William Laudun took the case to Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford12

3

The bishop advised exhuming the body, cutting the neck with a spade and sprinkling holy water12

4

The remedy did not work, and the corpse then called Laudun's own name12

5

Laudun chased it back to the grave and cut off its head himself12

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

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

Fonti

  1. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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Folklore delle stesse terre

Stessa epoca: Medioevo