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Kodukäija

Beste izen batzuk: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
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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

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Lehen erregistroa
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
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Estonian
Estonia
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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.
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Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Nola mugitzen den
Aldakorra
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.
Adimena
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  • 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

Noiz agertu zen lehen aldiz?

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

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Iturriek diotena

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

Ihes egingo zenioke korrika?

Abiadura-maila, iturriek nola deskribatzen duten oinarritzat hartuta (aldakorra), ez neurketa bat.

Zu, oinez 5 km/h (3.1 mph) inguru
Zu, korrika arin 10 km/h (6.2 mph) inguru
Kodukäija 10 km/h (6.2 mph) inguru
Heldu sasoiko bat lasterka bizian 24 km/h (15 mph) inguru
Txirrindulari azkar bat 37 km/h (23 mph) inguru

Iturriak

  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

Orri honetako datu guztiak iturri hauetatik datoz, gure hitzez idatzita. Akatsen bat ikusi duzu? Esaguzu helbide honetan: [email protected].

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Garai bera: 1500etik 1899ra

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