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Kirkonväki

Ana kuma kiransa: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Tatsuniya da almaraMatacce mai tafiyaYa bambanta1500 zuwa 1899

Kirkonväki is the Finnish name for the dead as a body, the population of the churchyard acting together. Finnish legend gives them corporeal form, as a congregation of decaying corpses that fills the church at night and mauls any living intruder, though everyday belief treated them more as an invisible, foul-smelling force. They enforced respect for graves and proper burial and could be weaponised by cunning folk. They are the closest thing in Finnish tradition to a horde of the walking dead.1

Yaƙe shi
Aka fara rubutawa
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Asali
Finnish
Finlan
Abin da ke haddasa shi
Sauran
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Yadda ake zama ɗaya
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Yadda yake motsi
Ya bambanta
In legends they gather in the church at night as a solid crowd; in personal accounts they pass as a swarm of small figures in the air.
Hankali
Ɗan hankali
Raunin maki
  • precautions when crossing churchyard boundaries
  • leaving something behind: in one legend a man escapes by dropping his fur coat on the church threshold, and the dead tear the coat apart

Yaushe ya fara bayyana?

Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s

bayanan fage

Abin da tushe suka ce

1

The word means 'churchyard folk', but väki also carries an older sense of 'force' or 'power'1

2

In legends they look like ordinary people or like rotting corpses and skeletons1

3

A migratory legend tells of the dead holding their own Christmas service and attacking a living person who walks in1

4

They reek of death; seers can see them, others only smell them1

5

Churchyard soil, bones or splinters of grave markers could be used to 'send' them against an enemy or set them on a thief1

6

Kaarina Koski's study draws on more than 2,000 records in the Finnish Literature Society's archives, richest in Ostrobothnia1

Za ka iya tserewa daga gare shi?

Rukunin gudu daga yadda tushe suka kwatanta shi (ya bambanta), ba ma'auni ba.

Kai, kana tafiya kusan 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Kai, kana gudun motsa jiki kusan 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki kusan 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Babba mai ƙarfi yana gudu da sauri kusan 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mai hawan keke mai gudu kusan 37 km/h (23 mph)

Tushe

  1. Kaarina Koski, 'Conceptual Analysis and Variation in Belief Tradition: A Case of Death-Related Beings', Folklore 38 (2008)

Kowane gaskiya a wannan shafi daga waɗannan tushe ne, an rubuta da kalmominmu. Ka ga kuskure? Gaya mana a [email protected].

Ciyar da taron aljanu. Babu talla, babu masu bin diddigi, mutum ɗaya ne ke biya. Tukwici na sa shafin ya ci gaba da aiki.Bar tukwici

Zamani ɗaya: 1500 zuwa 1899

Ciyar da taron aljanuBar tukwici