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Uppvakningur

También llamado: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
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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

Combatirlo
Origen
Icelandic
Islandia
Qué lo causa
Brujería
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Cómo se mueve
Varía
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • '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
notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

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

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

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