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Kodukäija

Einnig kallaður: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Þjóðtrú og goðsagnirÓdauðurBreytilegtSlæmur dauðdagi eða greftrun1500 til 1899

The kodukäija is the restless dead of Estonian folk belief, a deceased person who returns to the farm outside the sanctioned autumn 'time of souls'. It ranges from a worried parent checking on children to a hostile corpse that wrestles travellers by moonlight and kills livestock. Estonian funerals carried a whole apparatus against it, from sweeping away the mourners' footprints to burying the body face down. It is the Baltic-Finnic counterpart of the Scandinavian gjenganger and the German Wiedergänger, and it remained a living belief into the 20th century.12

Berjast við hann
Fyrst skráður
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Uppruni
Estonian
Eistland
Hvað veldur því
Slæmur dauðdagi eða greftrun
Folklorist Eha Viluoja traces most returns to a flaw in the passage out of life: a violent or lonely death, a botched or missing funeral, or the dead person's last wishes being ignored.
Hvernig maður verður einn
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Hvernig hann hreyfist
Breytilegt
Usually walks, with a normal or a bobbing gait, in its own likeness or grave clothes; it can also come as a dog, cat or other animal, or as a moving haystack, sack or whirlwind.
Greind
Nokkur greind
Veikir blettir
  • wolves, which were held to be as deadly to it as lightning
  • a beating with a rowan or juniper stick or a nine-knotted whip
  • a silver bullet or quicksilver
  • crosses, knives, salt or flax seed at thresholds and gates
  • binding or crippling the corpse, or burying it face down
  • a cock's crow, which halts it for the night

Hvenær kom hann fyrst fram?

Fornöld
Miðaldir
1500 til 1899
1900 til 1967
1968 til 1999
2000 til 2009
2010 til dagsins í dag
1860

Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older

vettvangsglósur

Hvað heimildir segja

1

The name means 'home-walker': a dead person who comes home at the wrong time12

2

It is cold to the touch and can pinch, strike, scratch or try to strangle12

3

It lets cattle loose, rumbles in the loft and imitates the sounds of work12

4

Dogs with spots over the eyes ('four-eyed' dogs) can see it12

5

The Estonian Folklore Archives hold about 3,600 records of it, seven times more than for the ordinary autumn visit of ancestral souls12

6

Viluoja notes that blood-drinking, vampire-type dead are not part of the Estonian tradition12

Gætirðu hlaupið hann af þér?

Hraðaflokkur byggður á lýsingum heimilda (breytilegt), ekki mæling.

Þú, gangandi um 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Þú, skokkandi um 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kodukäija um 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Hraustur fullorðinn á spretti um 24 km/h (15 mph)
Fljótur hjólreiðamaður um 37 km/h (23 mph)

Heimildir

  1. Eha Viluoja, 'Manifestations of the Revenant in Estonian Folk Tradition', Folklore 2
  2. Eha Viluoja, 'Relations Between the Living and the Dead in Estonian Folk Religion', Folklore 4

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Sama tímabil: 1500 til 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732