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Kirkonväki

Juga disebut: 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

Lawan dia
Pertama tercatat
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Asal
Finnish
Finlandia
Penyebabnya
Lainnya
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Cara menjadi zombi
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Cara bergerak
Bervariasi
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.
Kecerdasan
Agak cerdas
Titik lemah
  • 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

Kapan pertama kali muncul?

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

catatan lapangan

Kata sumber

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

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Kelas kecepatan berdasarkan cara sumber menggambarkannya (bervariasi), bukan hasil pengukuran.

Kamu, berjalan sekitar 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Kamu, jogging sekitar 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki sekitar 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Orang dewasa bugar yang sprint sekitar 24 km/h (15 mph)
Pesepeda cepat sekitar 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sumber

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

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