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Buckinghamshire revenant

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Buckingham ghost
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐtwetwe ne nanMfinimfini Mmerɛ

This is the first of four walking-corpse cases in William of Newburgh's chronicle. A Buckinghamshire man returns from the grave to his wife's bed, then harasses his family and their livestock until the whole neighbourhood is keeping night watches. The bishop refuses to authorise cremation and has a scroll of absolution laid on the dead man's breast instead, which ends the visits. It is the mildest of Newburgh's cases, with no deaths, and shows the Church trying to manage a popular demand for destroying the corpse.12

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Mfiase
Medieval English
United Kingdom
Deɛ ɛde ba
Wɔnkyerɛɛ aseɛ da
Newburgh gives no cause beyond the fact of the man's death and burial.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛtwetwe ne nan
Returns to his own bed at night and lies on his wife with crushing weight; later walks about in daylight, visible only to some.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • a letter of absolution from the Bishop of Lincoln placed on the corpse's chest

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Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ1198

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

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Buried on the eve of Ascension Day and back in his wife's bed the following night12

2

Driven off by the household's watch, he turned on his brothers and then on the animals12

3

Newburgh had the story from Stephen, the local archdeacon12

4

Locals wanted the body dug up and burned; Bishop Hugh of Lincoln judged that indecent12

5

When the tomb was opened to insert the absolution the body lay just as it had been buried12

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛtwetwe ne nan), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Buckinghamshire revenant bɛyɛ 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
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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