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Lithuanian returning dead

Digər adı: sugrįžtantys numirėliai, numirėlis, walking dead of Lithuania
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Lithuania kept a strong tradition of the dangerous dead long after its conversion to Christianity. Cemeteries of the 14th to 17th centuries contain bodies deliberately beheaded, dismembered or turned face down, which archaeologists connect with fear of corpses returning. Lithuanian legends collected in modern times still describe meetings with the 'walking dead', usually brought on by disrespect for a grave. The material and the stories together give a Baltic counterpart to the revenant evidence from England and Poland.12

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İlk qeydə alınıb
1350
Deviant burials of the 14th-17th centuries; legends recorded by modern folklorists
Mənşə
Lithuanian
Litva
Nə səbəb olur
Pis ölüm və ya dəfn
Folklore names the untimely dead and the very sinful as those who return; the legends add that the living provoke them by disturbing remains or grave goods.
Necə zombiyə çevrilirsiniz
An unexpected or wrongful death, a sinful life, or interference with the grave.
Ağıl
Bir qədər ağıllı
Zəif nöqtələr
  • decapitation of the exhumed corpse
  • burial face down or on the side
  • physical force
  • the intervention of a priest

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Deviant burials of the 14th-17th centuries; legends recorded by modern folklorists

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1

Archaeologist Gintautas Vėlius documented headless, limbless and prone burials in Christian-era Lithuanian cemeteries12

2

He interprets posthumous beheading as exhumation carried out from fear of the returning dead12

3

Many prone male burials contain weapons, suggesting men killed in battle12

4

In legends analysed by Edita Korzonaitė, short tales end with the living person's death and longer ones with a narrow escape12

5

Priests in the legends sometimes use methods with no obvious Christian basis12

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