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Kirkonväki

Poznat i kao: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset

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

Bori se protiv njega
Prvi zapis
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Podrijetlo
Finnish
Finska
Što ga uzrokuje
Ostalo
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Kako postaješ jedan od njih
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Kako se kreće
Varira
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.
Inteligencija
Malo inteligencije
Slabe točke
  • 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

Kad se prvi put pojavio?

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

terenske bilješke

Što kažu izvori

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

Bi li mu pobjegao?

Razred brzine prema opisu u izvorima (varira), a ne mjerenje.

Ti, u hodanju oko 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, u džogiranju oko 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki oko 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Spreman odrasli u sprintu oko 24 km/h (15 mph)
Brzi biciklist oko 37 km/h (23 mph)

Izvori

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

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