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Nachzehrer
Detto anche: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater
The Nachzehrer is the German shroud-eater, a corpse that kills without getting up. By chewing its grave clothes it was thought to drag its surviving relatives after it one by one, by malice or simply from wanting company. The belief gave communities a reason to open graves during outbreaks of disease and helped shape learned debate about the 'masticating dead' in the 18th century. It represents the stationary end of the revenant spectrum, where the corpse is dangerous but does not walk.12
Prima attestazione
1800
The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries olderOrigine
German
Germania, PoloniaCosa lo causa
Una brutta morte o una sepoltura sbrigativa
Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.Come lo si diventa
Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.
Come si muove
Si muove appena
It need not leave the grave at all: lying there, it chews its shroud and draws the life out of its kin at a distance.Intelligenza
Un po' di intelligenza
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Mondo antico
Medioevo
Dal 1500 al 1899
Dal 1900 al 1967
Dal 1968 al 1999
Dal 2000 al 2009
Dal 2010 a oggi
1800The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older
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