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Illustration of Hundeprest of Melrose
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Hundeprest of Melrose

Ibuye libizwe: the Dog-Priest, Melrose Abbey revenant
Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafiIyehlukaUkufa noma ukungcwatshwa okubiEzikhathini Eziphakathi

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

⚔️ Lwa nayo
Kuqoshwe kuqala
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Imvelaphi
Medieval English / Scottish borders
I-United Kingdom
Okuyibangela
Ukufa noma ukungcwatshwa okubi
A worldly priest who neglected his calling in life cannot rest in the monastery where he was buried.
Indlela oba ngayo yinye
A chaplain so devoted to hunting that he was nicknamed 'Hundeprest', the dog-priest.
Indlela inyakaza ngayo
Iyehluka
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.
Ubuhlakani
Ubuhlakani obuthile
Izindawo ezibuthaka
  • an axe blow from one of the men watching his grave
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes

Yaqala nini ukuvela?

Izwe lasendulo
Ezikhathini Eziphakathi
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2010 kuya namuhla
1198

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

amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

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

Ubungayidlula ngokugijima?

Isigaba sejubane esisuka ekuchazweni yimithombo (iyehluka), hhayi isilinganiso.

Wena, uhamba cishe 5 km/h
Wena, ugijima kancane cishe 10 km/h
Hundeprest of Melrose cishe 10 km/h
Umuntu omdala olungile egijima ngamandla cishe 24 km/h
Umgibeli webhayisikili osheshayo cishe 37 km/h

Imithombo

  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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