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Kirkonväki

Tuntud ka kui: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Folkloor ja müüdidElavsurnuVarieerub1500–1899

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

Võitle temaga
Esimene kirjalik mainimine
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Päritolu
Finnish
Soome
Mis seda põhjustab
Muu
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Kuidas selleks saadakse
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Kuidas see liigub
Varieerub
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.
Intelligentsus
Natuke intelligentsi
Nõrgad kohad
  • 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

Millal see esimest korda ilmus?

Antiikmaailm
Keskaeg
1500–1899
1900–1967
1968–1999
2000–2009
2010 tänapäevani
1551

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

välimärkmed

Mida allikad ütlevad

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

Kas jaksaksid temast eest ära joosta?

Kiiruseklass allikate kirjelduse põhjal (varieerub), mitte mõõtmine.

Sina kõndimas umbes 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Sina sörkimas umbes 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki umbes 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Vormis täiskasvanu sprindis umbes 24 km/h (15 mph)
Kiire jalgrattur umbes 37 km/h (23 mph)

Allikad

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

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Sama ajastu: 1500–1899

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