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Nachzehrer

Cunoscut și ca: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater
Folclor și mituriNemortAbia se mișcăO moarte sau o înmormântare nefericită1500–1899

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.12

⚔️ Luptă cu el
Prima mențiune
1800
The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older
Origine
German
Germania, Polonia
Ce o provoacă
O moarte sau o înmormântare nefericită
Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.
Cum devii unul
Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.
Cum se mișcă
Abia se mișcă
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.
Inteligență
Ceva inteligență

Când a apărut prima dată?

Lumea antică
Evul Mediu
1500–1899
1900–1967
1968–1999
2000–2009
2010 – prezent
1800

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

note de teren

Ce spun sursele

1

The name means roughly 'after-devourer'12

2

It gnaws its own shroud and clothing, which was treated as the commonest sign12

3

Other signs on exhumation: open eyes or mouth, red lips, a soft body, a thumb clasped in the opposite hand12

4

Often, though not always, blamed for epidemics12

5

Belief centred on northern Germany, with reports from Silesia and Bavaria12

6

Michael Ranft devoted a 1734 treatise to the 'chewing and smacking of the dead in their graves'12

Surse

  1. Nachzehrer - Wikipedia
  2. Wiederg%C3%A4nger - Wikipedia

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Aceeași epocă: 1500–1899