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Kodukäija

Ook bekend as: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Volksverhale en mitesOndoodWissel'n Slegte dood of begrafnis1500 tot 1899

The kodukäija is the restless dead of Estonian folk belief, a deceased person who returns to the farm outside the sanctioned autumn 'time of souls'. It ranges from a worried parent checking on children to a hostile corpse that wrestles travellers by moonlight and kills livestock. Estonian funerals carried a whole apparatus against it, from sweeping away the mourners' footprints to burying the body face down. It is the Baltic-Finnic counterpart of the Scandinavian gjenganger and the German Wiedergänger, and it remained a living belief into the 20th century.12

Veg daarteen
Eerste opgeteken
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Oorsprong
Estonian
Estland
Wat dit veroorsaak
'n Slegte dood of begrafnis
Folklorist Eha Viluoja traces most returns to a flaw in the passage out of life: a violent or lonely death, a botched or missing funeral, or the dead person's last wishes being ignored.
Hoe jy een word
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Hoe dit beweeg
Wissel
Usually walks, with a normal or a bobbing gait, in its own likeness or grave clothes; it can also come as a dog, cat or other animal, or as a moving haystack, sack or whirlwind.
Intelligensie
'n Bietjie intelligensie
Swak plekke
  • wolves, which were held to be as deadly to it as lightning
  • a beating with a rowan or juniper stick or a nine-knotted whip
  • a silver bullet or quicksilver
  • crosses, knives, salt or flax seed at thresholds and gates
  • binding or crippling the corpse, or burying it face down
  • a cock's crow, which halts it for the night

Wanneer het dit eerste verskyn?

Antieke wêreldMiddeleeue1500 tot 18991900 tot 19671968 tot 19992000 tot 20092010 tot vandag1860

Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older

veldnotas

Wat die bronne sê

1

The name means 'home-walker': a dead person who comes home at the wrong time12

2

It is cold to the touch and can pinch, strike, scratch or try to strangle12

3

It lets cattle loose, rumbles in the loft and imitates the sounds of work12

4

Dogs with spots over the eyes ('four-eyed' dogs) can see it12

5

The Estonian Folklore Archives hold about 3,600 records of it, seven times more than for the ordinary autumn visit of ancestral souls12

6

Viluoja notes that blood-drinking, vampire-type dead are not part of the Estonian tradition12

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)
Kodukäija 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. Eha Viluoja, 'Manifestations of the Revenant in Estonian Folk Tradition', Folklore 2
  2. Eha Viluoja, 'Relations Between the Living and the Dead in Estonian Folk Religion', Folklore 4

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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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