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Nachzehrer

Tamén chamado: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater

Folclore e mitoMorto viventeApenas se moveUnha mala morte ou un mal enterroDe 1500 a 1899

The Nachzehrer is the German shroud-eater, a corpse that kills without getting up. By chewing its grave clothes it was thought to drag its surviving relatives after it one by one, by malice or simply from wanting company. The belief gave communities a reason to open graves during outbreaks of disease and helped shape learned debate about the 'masticating dead' in the 18th century. It represents the stationary end of the revenant spectrum, where the corpse is dangerous but does not walk.1 2

Primeiro rexistro

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

Orixe

German

Alemaña, Polonia

Que o causa

Unha mala morte ou un mal enterro

Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.

Como te convertes nun

Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.

Como se move

Apenas se move

It need not leave the grave at all: lying there, it chews its shroud and draws the life out of its kin at a distance.

Intelixencia

Algo de intelixencia

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigo Idade Media De 1500 a 1899 De 1900 a 1967 De 1968 a 1999 De 2000 a 2009 De 2010 ata hoxe

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

1

The name means roughly 'after-devourer'1 2

2

It gnaws its own shroud and clothing, which was treated as the commonest sign1 2

3

Other signs on exhumation: open eyes or mouth, red lips, a soft body, a thumb clasped in the opposite hand1 2

4

Often, though not always, blamed for epidemics1 2

5

Belief centred on northern Germany, with reports from Silesia and Bavaria1 2

6

Michael Ranft devoted a 1734 treatise to the 'chewing and smacking of the dead in their graves'1 2

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