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Berwick revenant

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Berwick vampire
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At Berwick-upon-Tweed a wealthy man's corpse was said to leave its tomb each night and run through the streets with dogs baying behind it. The townspeople feared plague more than the dead man himself, on the theory that a wandering corpse poisons the air. They had it cut up and burned, but the epidemic came regardless. The case is an early example of the link between revenants and contagion that later drove vampire panics.12

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Mfiase
Medieval English / Scottish borders
United Kingdom
Deɛ ɛde ba
Abonsam anaa ahonhom bɔne
Newburgh attributes the corpse's movements to the working of Satan.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A rich townsman who was discovered after death to have been a rogue.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛtu mmirika
Leaves the tomb at night and ranges through the town pursued by a pack of loudly barking dogs, returning before daybreak.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • dismembering the body and burning it

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

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

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

No one dared be out of doors after dusk12

2

The town's leaders feared the corpse would breed disease in the air12

3

Ten young men were hired to exhume it, cut it in pieces and burn it12

4

The monster was reported to have said there would be no peace until it was burned12

5

A pestilence killed much of the population anyway12

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛtu mmirika), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Wo, nantew bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wo, mmirika brɛoo bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ɔpanin a ne ho yɛ den a ɔtu mmirika denden bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Berwick revenant bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Sakrekafoɔ a ɔyɛ ntɛm bɛyɛ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fibea

  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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