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Revenant (medieval England)

Ook bekend as: revenant, walking dead
Volksverhale en mitesOndoodWissel'n Slegte dood of begrafnisMiddeleeue

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

Veg daarteen
Eerste opgeteken
1100
Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century
Oorsprong
Medieval English
Verenigde Koninkryk
Wat dit veroorsaak
'n Slegte dood of begrafnis
Clerical writers tie the return to a 'bad death': a sinful or excommunicate life, or dying suddenly without confession and last rites.
Hoe jy een word
A person of bad reputation dies unshriven or excommunicate and is buried, but the body does not stay down.
Hoe dit beweeg
Wissel
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.
Intelligensie
'n Bietjie intelligensie
Swak plekke
  • decapitation
  • removing and burning the heart
  • dismembering and cremating the body
  • a bishop's written absolution laid on the corpse
  • holy water

Wanneer het dit eerste verskyn?

Antieke wêreldMiddeleeue1500 tot 18991900 tot 19671968 tot 19992000 tot 20092010 tot vandag1100

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

veldnotas

Wat die bronne sê

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

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

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Volksverhale uit dieselfde lande

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Selfde era: Middeleeue

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