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Revenant (medieval England)

Kallas även: revenant, walking dead
Folktro och myterOdödVarierarEn dålig död eller begravningMedeltiden

Twelfth-century English chroniclers, among them Geoffrey of Burton, Walter Map and William of Newburgh, record a cluster of cases in which a buried corpse walked at night and brought death to its neighbours. The stories are told as recent local news, with named bishops and archdeacons called in to rule on them. The remedies, digging up the body and beheading, burning or absolving it, are the same ones later used against vampires in central Europe. Scholars read these revenants as the product of a failed death, a person stuck between the living and the dead who has to be forcibly moved on.12

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Först belagd
1100
Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century
Ursprung
Medieval English
Storbritannien
Vad som orsakar det
En dålig död eller begravning
Clerical writers tie the return to a 'bad death': a sinful or excommunicate life, or dying suddenly without confession and last rites.
Hur man blir en
A person of bad reputation dies unshriven or excommunicate and is buried, but the body does not stay down.
Hur den rör sig
Varierar
The corpse leaves its grave at night, roams streets and houses, often with dogs barking after it, and is back in the tomb by dawn.
Intelligens
Viss intelligens
Svaga punkter
  • decapitation
  • removing and burning the heart
  • dismembering and cremating the body
  • a bishop's written absolution laid on the corpse
  • holy water

När dök den upp första gången?

Antiken
Medeltiden
1500 till 1899
1900 till 1967
1968 till 1999
2000 till 2009
2010 till idag
1100

Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century

fältanteckningar

Vad källorna säger

1

The chroniclers describe intact, sometimes blood-filled bodies, not apparitions12

2

Its presence corrupts the air and is blamed for epidemics12

3

William of Newburgh thought the cases were a recent phenomenon and too numerous to list12

4

Bishops disagreed over the cure: Hugh of Lincoln preferred absolution to burning12

5

Later accounts, such as a Clydesdale case in the Lanercost chronicle, show the belief persisting unevenly12

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Du, gående cirka 5 km/h
Du, joggande cirka 10 km/h
Revenant (medieval England) cirka 10 km/h
En vältränad vuxen i full sprint cirka 24 km/h
En snabb cyklist cirka 37 km/h

Källor

  1. Revenant - Wikipedia
  2. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)

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