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Kirkonväki

Ook bekend as: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Volksverhale en mitesOndoodWissel1500 tot 1899

Kirkonväki is the Finnish name for the dead as a body, the population of the churchyard acting together. Finnish legend gives them corporeal form, as a congregation of decaying corpses that fills the church at night and mauls any living intruder, though everyday belief treated them more as an invisible, foul-smelling force. They enforced respect for graves and proper burial and could be weaponised by cunning folk. They are the closest thing in Finnish tradition to a horde of the walking dead.1

Veg daarteen
Eerste opgeteken
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Oorsprong
Finnish
Finland
Wat dit veroorsaak
Ander
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Hoe jy een word
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Hoe dit beweeg
Wissel
In legends they gather in the church at night as a solid crowd; in personal accounts they pass as a swarm of small figures in the air.
Intelligensie
'n Bietjie intelligensie
Swak plekke
  • precautions when crossing churchyard boundaries
  • leaving something behind: in one legend a man escapes by dropping his fur coat on the church threshold, and the dead tear the coat apart

Wanneer het dit eerste verskyn?

Antieke wêreldMiddeleeue1500 tot 18991900 tot 19671968 tot 19992000 tot 20092010 tot vandag1551

Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s

veldnotas

Wat die bronne sê

1

The word means 'churchyard folk', but väki also carries an older sense of 'force' or 'power'1

2

In legends they look like ordinary people or like rotting corpses and skeletons1

3

A migratory legend tells of the dead holding their own Christmas service and attacking a living person who walks in1

4

They reek of death; seers can see them, others only smell them1

5

Churchyard soil, bones or splinters of grave markers could be used to 'send' them against an enemy or set them on a thief1

6

Kaarina Koski's study draws on more than 2,000 records in the Finnish Literature Society's archives, richest in Ostrobothnia1

Sou jy hom kon uithardloop?

Spoedklas volgens hoe die bronne dit beskryf (wissel), nie 'n meting nie.

Jy, stap omtrent 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Jy, draf omtrent 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki omtrent 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
'n Fikse volwassene wat naelloop omtrent 24 km/h (15 mph)
'n Vinnige fietsryer omtrent 37 km/h (23 mph)

Bronne

  1. Kaarina Koski, 'Conceptual Analysis and Variation in Belief Tradition: A Case of Death-Related Beings', Folklore 38 (2008)

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Selfde era: 1500 tot 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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