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Revenant (medieval England)

Tamén chamado: revenant, walking dead
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeVaríaUnha mala morte ou un mal enterroIdade Media

Twelfth-century English chroniclers, among them Geoffrey of Burton, Walter Map and William of Newburgh, record a cluster of cases in which a buried corpse walked at night and brought death to its neighbours. The stories are told as recent local news, with named bishops and archdeacons called in to rule on them. The remedies, digging up the body and beheading, burning or absolving it, are the same ones later used against vampires in central Europe. Scholars read these revenants as the product of a failed death, a person stuck between the living and the dead who has to be forcibly moved on.12

Á batalla!
Primeiro rexistro
1100
Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century
Orixe
Medieval English
Reino Unido
Que o causa
Unha mala morte ou un mal enterro
Clerical writers tie the return to a 'bad death': a sinful or excommunicate life, or dying suddenly without confession and last rites.
Como te convertes nun
A person of bad reputation dies unshriven or excommunicate and is buried, but the body does not stay down.
Como se move
Varía
The corpse leaves its grave at night, roams streets and houses, often with dogs barking after it, and is back in the tomb by dawn.
Intelixencia
Algo de intelixencia
Puntos débiles
  • decapitation
  • removing and burning the heart
  • dismembering and cremating the body
  • a bishop's written absolution laid on the corpse
  • holy water

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigoIdade MediaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 ata hoxe1100

Geoffrey of Burton's account of events around 1090, written in the early 12th century

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

1

The chroniclers describe intact, sometimes blood-filled bodies, not apparitions12

2

Its presence corrupts the air and is blamed for epidemics12

3

William of Newburgh thought the cases were a recent phenomenon and too numerous to list12

4

Bishops disagreed over the cure: Hugh of Lincoln preferred absolution to burning12

5

Later accounts, such as a Clydesdale case in the Lanercost chronicle, show the belief persisting unevenly12

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)
Revenant (medieval England) 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. Revenant - Wikipedia
  2. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)

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