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Hundeprest of Melrose

Ook wel genoemd: the Dog-Priest, Melrose Abbey revenant
Folklore en mythenOndoodWisselendEen slechte dood of begrafenisMiddeleeuwen

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

⚔️ Vecht ertegen
Eerst vastgelegd
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Herkomst
Medieval English / Scottish borders
Verenigd Koninkrijk
Wat het veroorzaakt
Een slechte dood of begrafenis
A worldly priest who neglected his calling in life cannot rest in the monastery where he was buried.
Hoe je er een wordt
A chaplain so devoted to hunting that he was nicknamed 'Hundeprest', the dog-priest.
Hoe hij beweegt
Wisselend
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.
Intelligentie
Enige intelligentie
Zwakke plekken
  • an axe blow from one of the men watching his grave
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes

Wanneer verscheen hij voor het eerst?

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1198

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

veldnotities

Wat de bronnen zeggen

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

Zou je hem kunnen ontlopen?

Snelheidsklasse op basis van hoe de bronnen het beschrijven (wisselend), geen meting.

Jij, lopend ongeveer 5 km/h
Jij, joggend ongeveer 10 km/h
Hundeprest of Melrose ongeveer 10 km/h
Een fitte volwassene in een sprint ongeveer 24 km/h
Een snelle wielrenner ongeveer 37 km/h

Bronnen

  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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