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Kirkonväki

Auch bekannt als: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Folklore und MythenUntotVariiert1500 bis 1899

Kirkonväki is the Finnish name for the dead as a body, the population of the churchyard acting together. Finnish legend gives them corporeal form, as a congregation of decaying corpses that fills the church at night and mauls any living intruder, though everyday belief treated them more as an invisible, foul-smelling force. They enforced respect for graves and proper burial and could be weaponised by cunning folk. They are the closest thing in Finnish tradition to a horde of the walking dead.1

Gegen ihn kämpfen
Erstmals belegt
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Herkunft
Finnish
Finnland
Was es auslöst
Sonstige
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Wie man einer wird
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Wie er sich bewegt
Variiert
In legends they gather in the church at night as a solid crowd; in personal accounts they pass as a swarm of small figures in the air.
Intelligenz
Etwas Intelligenz
Schwachstellen
  • precautions when crossing churchyard boundaries
  • leaving something behind: in one legend a man escapes by dropping his fur coat on the church threshold, and the dead tear the coat apart

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

AntikeMittelalter1500 bis 18991900 bis 19671968 bis 19992000 bis 20092010 bis heute1551

Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

1

The word means 'churchyard folk', but väki also carries an older sense of 'force' or 'power'1

2

In legends they look like ordinary people or like rotting corpses and skeletons1

3

A migratory legend tells of the dead holding their own Christmas service and attacking a living person who walks in1

4

They reek of death; seers can see them, others only smell them1

5

Churchyard soil, bones or splinters of grave markers could be used to 'send' them against an enemy or set them on a thief1

6

Kaarina Koski's study draws on more than 2,000 records in the Finnish Literature Society's archives, richest in Ostrobothnia1

Könntest du ihm davonlaufen?

Tempoklasse nach der Beschreibung der Quellen (variiert), keine Messung.

Du, gehend etwa 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Du, joggend etwa 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki etwa 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ein fitter Erwachsener im Sprint etwa 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ein schneller Radfahrer etwa 37 km/h (23 mph)

Quellen

  1. Kaarina Koski, 'Conceptual Analysis and Variation in Belief Tradition: A Case of Death-Related Beings', Folklore 38 (2008)

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Gleiche Epoche: 1500 bis 1899

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