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Gjenganger

Wɔfrɛ no bio: genganger, gengångare, attergangar, gjenferd, genfærd
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewOwuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie

The gjenganger is the walking dead of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish folk belief and the direct heir of the saga draugr. Early accounts make it a solid, violent corpse that torments its own family; later ones turn it into a carrier of sickness whose pinch leaves a mark that spreads to the heart. Burial customs across Scandinavia were designed to keep it in the grave. Its slow change from corpse to ghost tracks the wider European retreat of belief in the bodily dead.12

Fa ko
Mfiase
Scandinavian
Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Deɛ ɛde ba
Owuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie
A violent or unfinished death leaves the person unable to rest.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
Murder victims, murderers, suicides and people who left something undone were expected to return.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • the sign of the cross painted or carved on the house
  • Christian prayers and crucifixes
  • carrying the coffin three times round the church before burial
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

The name means 'again-walker'; German Wiedergänger is the same idea12

2

In Scandinavian tradition it is wholly physical, with no spectral qualities12

3

Later lore made it a spreader of disease through the dødningeknip, the 'dead man's pinch', inflicted on sleepers12

4

Cairns called varp marked death sites, and travellers added a stone or twig in passing12

5

In modern usage it has faded into an ordinary ghost12

Fibea

  1. Gjenganger - Wikipedia
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

DraugrNorse, 1250AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / GermanicKárr the OldNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300Sea draugNorwegian, 1741

Bebree a ɛte sɛ yei

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Ma dɔm no aduaneMa akyɛdeɛ