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Kodukäija

Wi'aama fahin: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Haala e tuugnorgalMaayɓe yaaɗooɓeIna feereMaayo bonngo walla suuɗaago bonngo1500 haa 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

Haɓdu e mo
Artii winndaago
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Ƴiiɗal
Estonian
Estoni
Ko waɗi ɗum
Maayo bonngo walla suuɗaago bonngo
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.
No a wonata gooto
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
No ɗum yaaɗi
Ina feere
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.
Hakkiilo
Woodi seyo hakkiilo
Ñaawooje
  • 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

Ndey ɗum artii hollugo?

Aduna ɓiɗɗoJamaanu Hakkunde1500 haa 18991900 haa 19671968 haa 19992000 haa 20092010 haa ñalnde hannde1860

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

winndaa ɗo nokku

Ko sorsi ɗin mbi'i

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

A waawan daanaade mo?

Ngesa yaawngo ko sorsi ɗin kaalata (ina feere), wanaa ko hakkundirdaa.

An, a yaaɗi ɗon 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
An, a ɗawi gaynaako ɗon 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kodukäija ɗon 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Gooto bote mo tiiɗi, wa'i ko yaawɗo ɗon 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mbaaleejo ngaɗa yaawɗo ɗon 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sorsi

  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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