
Fael Nɔma 015 wɔ 446 mu
Welsh revenant of Hereford
Wɔfrɛ no bio: William Laudun's revenant, Walter Map's Welshman
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
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1185
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192Mfiase
Medieval English / Welsh borders
United KingdomDeɛ 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
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)
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