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Kodukäija

También llamado: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Folclore y mitosNo muertoVaríaUna mala muerte o un entierro chapuceroDe 1500 a 1899

The kodukäija is the restless dead of Estonian folk belief, a deceased person who returns to the farm outside the sanctioned autumn 'time of souls'. It ranges from a worried parent checking on children to a hostile corpse that wrestles travellers by moonlight and kills livestock. Estonian funerals carried a whole apparatus against it, from sweeping away the mourners' footprints to burying the body face down. It is the Baltic-Finnic counterpart of the Scandinavian gjenganger and the German Wiedergänger, and it remained a living belief into the 20th century.12

Combatirlo
Primer registro
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Origen
Estonian
Estonia
Qué lo causa
Una mala muerte o un entierro chapucero
Folklorist Eha Viluoja traces most returns to a flaw in the passage out of life: a violent or lonely death, a botched or missing funeral, or the dead person's last wishes being ignored.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Cómo se mueve
Varía
Usually walks, with a normal or a bobbing gait, in its own likeness or grave clothes; it can also come as a dog, cat or other animal, or as a moving haystack, sack or whirlwind.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • wolves, which were held to be as deadly to it as lightning
  • a beating with a rowan or juniper stick or a nine-knotted whip
  • a silver bullet or quicksilver
  • crosses, knives, salt or flax seed at thresholds and gates
  • binding or crippling the corpse, or burying it face down
  • a cock's crow, which halts it for the night

¿Cuándo apareció por primera vez?

Mundo antiguoEdad MediaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 a hoy1860

Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

1

The name means 'home-walker': a dead person who comes home at the wrong time12

2

It is cold to the touch and can pinch, strike, scratch or try to strangle12

3

It lets cattle loose, rumbles in the loft and imitates the sounds of work12

4

Dogs with spots over the eyes ('four-eyed' dogs) can see it12

5

The Estonian Folklore Archives hold about 3,600 records of it, seven times more than for the ordinary autumn visit of ancestral souls12

6

Viluoja notes that blood-drinking, vampire-type dead are not part of the Estonian tradition12

¿Podrías huir de él?

Clase de velocidad según cómo la describen las fuentes (varía), no una medición.

Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kodukäija unos 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fuentes

  1. Eha Viluoja, 'Manifestations of the Revenant in Estonian Folk Tradition', Folklore 2
  2. Eha Viluoja, 'Relations Between the Living and the Dead in Estonian Folk Religion', Folklore 4

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Misma época: De 1500 a 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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