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Byland Abbey revenants

Wɔfrɛ no bio: James Tankerlay, Robert of Boltby, Byland ghost stories
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐsesaOwuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yieMfinimfini Mmerɛ

The Byland stories are a set of local Yorkshire accounts of the returning dead, jotted into a monastic manuscript around 1400. Several concern actual corpses that leave their graves: a dead rector who walks across the moor to blind his former concubine, and a man caught bodily in a churchyard by his neighbours. Unlike the 12th-century cases, most are settled by absolution and masses rather than by destroying the body. They show the walking corpse giving way to the purgatorial ghost, with both still present in the same notebook.12

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1400
Twelve stories added about 1400 to a Byland Abbey manuscript (British Library Royal MS 15 A XX)
Mfiase
Medieval English
United Kingdom
Deɛ ɛde ba
Owuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie
The dead return because of unconfessed sins, excommunication or debts they could not settle before death.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
People who died with a sin or obligation unresolved.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛsesa
Some walk from the grave in their own bodies; others appear as a horse, dog, goat, raven or a rolling object.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • priestly conjuration and absolution
  • masses said for the dead
  • restitution of stolen goods
  • throwing the coffin into a lake (Tankerlay)

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ1400

Twelve stories added about 1400 to a Byland Abbey manuscript (British Library Royal MS 15 A XX)

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Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Written down by a monk of Byland in Yorkshire on blank leaves of an older book12

2

Edited in Latin by the ghost-story writer M. R. James in 192212

3

James Tankerlay, a former rector, walked at night and put out his mistress's eye; his body was dug up and thrown into Gormire12

4

Robert of Boltby was seized in the churchyard by village youths and absolved by the priest12

5

One spirit speaks from its bowels rather than with its tongue12

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

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

Wo, nantew bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wo, mmirika brɛoo bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Byland Abbey revenants 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. Ghost Stories from Byland Abbey - Medieval Histories
  2. Zombies and Shapechangers in Medieval Yorkshire - Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

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