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Uppvakningur

També anomenat: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Folklore i miteMort viuVariaBruixeria

The uppvakningur is the Icelandic corpse raised by sorcery, as opposed to the dead who walk for their own reasons. The magician has to overpower the body as it climbs from the grave, after which it obeys orders and can be sent to harm or kill an enemy. An accusation of raising a dead man lay behind the first burning for sorcery in Iceland. As a corpse with no will of its own working for a living master, it is the nearest European equivalent of the Haitian zombi.12

Lluita-hi
Origen
Icelandic
Islàndia
Què el causa
Bruixeria
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Com et converteixes en un
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Com es mou
Varia
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Intel·ligència
Una mica d'intel·ligència
Punts febles
  • 'singing it down' with the right verses
  • cutting off the head and burning the body
  • throwing a ball of yarn into the open grave and holding the thread until it swears not to return
notes de camp

Què diuen les fonts

1

Distinguished from the afturganga, who comes back of its own will12

2

Once beaten, the corpse asks what its master wants done12

3

A raised corpse dispatched to kill is called a sending12

4

Jón Rögnvaldsson, the first man burned for sorcery in Iceland, was accused of raising a dead man and sending him against a neighbour's farm12

5

Such dead wear out over time; one is described walking on its knees after its feet had rotted away12

6

Folklorist Björk Bjarnadóttir compares Icelandic ghosts to zombies because they are solid12

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Classe de velocitat segons com la descriuen les fonts (varia), no una mesura.

Tu, caminant uns 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Tu, fent footing uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Uppvakningur uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adult en forma fent un esprint uns 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista ràpid uns 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fonts

  1. We asked a folklorist for all the spooky details - The Reykjavík Grapevine
  2. Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft

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