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Welsh revenant of Hereford

Wɔfrɛ no bio: William Laudun's revenant, Walter Map's Welshman
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐsesaOwuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yieMfinimfini Mmerɛ

Walter Map tells of a dead Welshman who walked nightly near Hereford and summoned his neighbours to death by name. The bishop's prescribed cure of holy water and a cut neck failed, and the haunting ended only when the knight William Laudun pursued the corpse to its grave and beheaded it. The name-calling motif turns up again centuries later in the Greek vrykolakas. Map also records gentler cases settled by a cross on the grave or priestly absolution.12

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1185
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192
Mfiase
Medieval English / Welsh borders
United Kingdom
Deɛ ɛde ba
Owuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie
Map says the man died 'unchristianly'.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A Welshman who died without a Christian end.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛsesa
Walks back from his grave into the village each night and calls residents by name.
Nyansa
Nyansafoɔ
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • holy water on the body and grave (tried first, and failed)
  • splitting the head from the neck with a sword

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Everyone he named fell ill and died within three days12

2

The English knight William Laudun took the case to Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford12

3

The bishop advised exhuming the body, cutting the neck with a spade and sprinkling holy water12

4

The remedy did not work, and the corpse then called Laudun's own name12

5

Laudun chased it back to the grave and cut off its head himself12

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)
Welsh revenant of Hereford 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. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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