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Nachzehrer
Ook wel genoemd: 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
Eerst vastgelegd
1800
The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries olderHerkomst
German
Duitsland, PolenWat het veroorzaakt
Een slechte dood of begrafenis
Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.Hoe je er een wordt
Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.
Hoe hij beweegt
Beweegt amper
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.Intelligentie
Enige intelligentie
Wanneer verscheen hij voor het eerst?
Oudheid
Middeleeuwen
1500 tot 1899
1900 tot 1967
1968 tot 1999
2000 tot 2009
2010 tot nu
1800The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older
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Upiór
Pień padlocked burial
Shoemaker of Breslau
Wiedergänger
Aufhocker
Jiangshi
Zombi (Haitian)
Strigoi
Vampir (South Slavic)
Abhartach
Arnold Paole