Nachzehrer

Juga dipanggil: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater

Cerita rakyat dan mitosMayat hidupHampir tidak bergerakKematian atau pengebumian yang tidak elok1500 hingga 1899

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.1 2

⚔️ Lawan

Pertama direkodkan

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

Asal usul

German

Jerman, Poland

Apa yang menyebabkannya

Kematian atau pengebumian yang tidak elok

Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.

Cara anda menjadi satu

Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.

Cara ia bergerak

Hampir tidak bergerak

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.

Kecerdasan

Sedikit kecerdasan

Bilakah ia mula muncul?

Dunia purba

Zaman Pertengahan

1500 hingga 1899

1900 hingga 1967

1968 hingga 1999

2000 hingga 2009

2010 hingga kini

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

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Apa kata sumber

The name means roughly 'after-devourer'1 2

It gnaws its own shroud and clothing, which was treated as the commonest sign1 2

Other signs on exhumation: open eyes or mouth, red lips, a soft body, a thumb clasped in the opposite hand1 2

Often, though not always, blamed for epidemics1 2

Belief centred on northern Germany, with reports from Silesia and Bavaria1 2

Michael Ranft devoted a 1734 treatise to the 'chewing and smacking of the dead in their graves'1 2

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