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Uppvakningur

Tamén chamado: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeVaríaBruxaría

The uppvakningur is the Icelandic corpse raised by sorcery, as opposed to the dead who walk for their own reasons. The magician has to overpower the body as it climbs from the grave, after which it obeys orders and can be sent to harm or kill an enemy. An accusation of raising a dead man lay behind the first burning for sorcery in Iceland. As a corpse with no will of its own working for a living master, it is the nearest European equivalent of the Haitian zombi.12

Á batalla!
Orixe
Icelandic
Islandia
Que o causa
Bruxaría
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Como te convertes nun
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Como se move
Varía
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Intelixencia
Algo de intelixencia
Puntos débiles
  • 'singing it down' with the right verses
  • cutting off the head and burning the body
  • throwing a ball of yarn into the open grave and holding the thread until it swears not to return
notas de campo

O que din as fontes

1

Distinguished from the afturganga, who comes back of its own will12

2

Once beaten, the corpse asks what its master wants done12

3

A raised corpse dispatched to kill is called a sending12

4

Jón Rögnvaldsson, the first man burned for sorcery in Iceland, was accused of raising a dead man and sending him against a neighbour's farm12

5

Such dead wear out over time; one is described walking on its knees after its feet had rotted away12

6

Folklorist Björk Bjarnadóttir compares Icelandic ghosts to zombies because they are solid12

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)
Uppvakningur 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. We asked a folklorist for all the spooky details - The Reykjavík Grapevine
  2. Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft

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