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Hundeprest of Melrose

Detto anche: the Dog-Priest, Melrose Abbey revenant
Folklore e mitiNon mortoVariaUna brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativaMedioevo

The Hundeprest is the walking dead priest of Melrose, recorded by William of Newburgh. Buried in the monastery, he rose at night and terrified his former mistress until a party of four undertook to watch the grave. One of them drove an axe into the corpse when it charged him, and at dawn the wounded, bleeding body was exhumed, burned and its ashes scattered. The story is unusual for showing a revenant physically injured in a fight.12

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Prima attestazione
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Origine
Medieval English / Scottish borders
Regno Unito
Cosa lo causa
Una brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativa
A worldly priest who neglected his calling in life cannot rest in the monastery where he was buried.
Come lo si diventa
A chaplain so devoted to hunting that he was nicknamed 'Hundeprest', the dog-priest.
Come si muove
Varia
Rises at night; the sanctity of the monks keeps him from doing harm inside the abbey, so he roams outside and groans around a noblewoman's bedchamber.
Intelligenza
Un po' di intelligenza
Punti deboli
  • an axe blow from one of the men watching his grave
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes

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1198

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

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Cosa dicono le fonti

1

He had been chaplain to a noble lady and haunted her after death12

2

Two friars and two strong young men kept an armed vigil at the grave12

3

When three went off to warm themselves, the corpse attacked the one left alone12

4

Wounded, it fled back to a tomb that opened to receive it and closed again12

5

In the morning the body was dug up with the axe wound in it and the grave full of blood12

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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
Hundeprest of Melrose 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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