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Nachzehrer

Ook bekend as: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater
Volksverhale en mitesOndoodBeweeg skaars'n Slegte dood of begrafnis1500 tot 1899

The Nachzehrer is the German shroud-eater, a corpse that kills without getting up. By chewing its grave clothes it was thought to drag its surviving relatives after it one by one, by malice or simply from wanting company. The belief gave communities a reason to open graves during outbreaks of disease and helped shape learned debate about the 'masticating dead' in the 18th century. It represents the stationary end of the revenant spectrum, where the corpse is dangerous but does not walk.12

Veg daarteen
Eerste opgeteken
1800
The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older
Oorsprong
German
Duitsland, Pole
Wat dit veroorsaak
'n Slegte dood of begrafnis
Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.
Hoe jy een word
Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.
Hoe dit beweeg
Beweeg skaars
It need not leave the grave at all: lying there, it chews its shroud and draws the life out of its kin at a distance.
Intelligensie
'n Bietjie intelligensie

Wanneer het dit eerste verskyn?

Antieke wêreldMiddeleeue1500 tot 18991900 tot 19671968 tot 19992000 tot 20092010 tot vandag1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

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Wat die bronne sê

1

The name means roughly 'after-devourer'12

2

It gnaws its own shroud and clothing, which was treated as the commonest sign12

3

Other signs on exhumation: open eyes or mouth, red lips, a soft body, a thumb clasped in the opposite hand12

4

Often, though not always, blamed for epidemics12

5

Belief centred on northern Germany, with reports from Silesia and Bavaria12

6

Michael Ranft devoted a 1734 treatise to the 'chewing and smacking of the dead in their graves'12

Bronne

  1. Nachzehrer - Wikipedia
  2. Wiederg%C3%A4nger - Wikipedia

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Volksverhale uit dieselfde lande

StrzygaPolish and Silesian, 1863UpiórSlavic, 1100Pień padlocked burialPolish, 1650Shoemaker of BreslauSilesian (German), 1591WiedergängerGermanAufhockerGerman

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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