Aufhocker
The Aufhocker is a German revenant that attacks by riding its victims. It drops onto a night traveller's shoulders and becomes heavier and heavier until the bearer is crushed with exhaustion. Its destinations, churchyards and graves, mark it as one of the dead. It is a regional specialist within the wider Wiedergänger family.1
- a prayer or formula of banishment
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The name means roughly 'one who squats on you'1
It grows heavier with every step until the victim collapses or dies1
Victims are made to carry it to a churchyard wall or a grave1
It can take different shapes, and in the Rhineland it could appear as a werewolf1
Folklorists stress its bodily weight as proof that it is a revenant and not a ghost1
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