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Kodukäija

Tamén chamado: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeVaríaUnha mala morte ou un mal enterroDe 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

Á batalla!
Primeiro rexistro
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Orixe
Estonian
Estonia
Que o causa
Unha mala morte ou un mal enterro
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.
Como te convertes nun
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Como se move
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.
Intelixencia
Algo de intelixencia
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

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigoIdade MediaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 ata hoxe1860

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

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

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

Poderías correr máis ca el?

Clase de velocidade segundo como o describen as fontes (varía), non unha medición.

Ti, camiñando uns 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, trotando uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kodukäija uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulto en forma a toda velocidade uns 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista rápido uns 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fontes

  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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Mesma 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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