Hvaða uppvakningur ert þú?
Uppvakningabardagi
Hlaupa þá af þér
Spilasafn
Tungumál: Íslenska
Gefðu hjörðinni að éta (þjórfékrukka)
Kirkonväki
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
- 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
Hvenær kom hann fyrst fram?
1551Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Hvað heimildir segja
The word means 'churchyard folk', but väki also carries an older sense of 'force' or 'power'1
In legends they look like ordinary people or like rotting corpses and skeletons1
A migratory legend tells of the dead holding their own Christmas service and attacking a living person who walks in1
They reek of death; seers can see them, others only smell them1
Churchyard soil, bones or splinters of grave markers could be used to 'send' them against an enemy or set them on a thief1
Kaarina Koski's study draws on more than 2,000 records in the Finnish Literature Society's archives, richest in Ostrobothnia1
Gætirðu hlaupið hann af þér?
Hraðaflokkur byggður á lýsingum heimilda (breytilegt), ekki mæling.
Heimildir
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Jiangshi
Zombi (Haitian)
Strigoi
Vampir (South Slavic)
Abhartach
Arnold Paole