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Revenant (medieval England)

Detto anche: revenant, walking dead
Folklore e mitiNon mortoVariaUna brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativaMedioevo

Twelfth-century English chroniclers, among them Geoffrey of Burton, Walter Map and William of Newburgh, record a cluster of cases in which a buried corpse walked at night and brought death to its neighbours. The stories are told as recent local news, with named bishops and archdeacons called in to rule on them. The remedies, digging up the body and beheading, burning or absolving it, are the same ones later used against vampires in central Europe. Scholars read these revenants as the product of a failed death, a person stuck between the living and the dead who has to be forcibly moved on.12

⚔️ Combatterlo
Prima attestazione
1100
Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century
Origine
Medieval English
Regno Unito
Cosa lo causa
Una brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativa
Clerical writers tie the return to a 'bad death': a sinful or excommunicate life, or dying suddenly without confession and last rites.
Come lo si diventa
A person of bad reputation dies unshriven or excommunicate and is buried, but the body does not stay down.
Come si muove
Varia
The corpse leaves its grave at night, roams streets and houses, often with dogs barking after it, and is back in the tomb by dawn.
Intelligenza
Un po' di intelligenza
Punti deboli
  • decapitation
  • removing and burning the heart
  • dismembering and cremating the body
  • a bishop's written absolution laid on the corpse
  • holy water

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
1100

Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

1

The chroniclers describe intact, sometimes blood-filled bodies, not apparitions12

2

Its presence corrupts the air and is blamed for epidemics12

3

William of Newburgh thought the cases were a recent phenomenon and too numerous to list12

4

Bishops disagreed over the cure: Hugh of Lincoln preferred absolution to burning12

5

Later accounts, such as a Clydesdale case in the Lanercost chronicle, show the belief persisting unevenly12

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Tu, che cammini circa 5 km/h
Tu, che corri circa 10 km/h
Revenant (medieval England) circa 10 km/h
Un adulto allenato in sprint circa 24 km/h
Un ciclista veloce circa 37 km/h

Fonti

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

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Stessa epoca: Medioevo

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