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Aufhocker

Era ayitibwa: Huckop, Huckupp
Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaAbafu abalamuAdduka

The Aufhocker is a German revenant that attacks by riding its victims. It drops onto a night traveller's shoulders and becomes heavier and heavier until the bearer is crushed with exhaustion. Its destinations, churchyards and graves, mark it as one of the dead. It is a regional specialist within the wider Wiedergänger family.1

Lwanyisa
Gy'ava
German
Budaaki
Ekikireeta
Tekyannyonnyolwa
The sources consulted class it among the returning dead without giving a cause.
Engeri gy'atambulamu
Adduka
Leaps onto the back of a lone walker at night and has to be carried.
Amagezi
Amagezi matono
Ebifo ebinafu
  • a prayer or formula of banishment
ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

1

The name means roughly 'one who squats on you'1

2

It grows heavier with every step until the victim collapses or dies1

3

Victims are made to carry it to a churchyard wall or a grave1

4

It can take different shapes, and in the Rhineland it could appear as a werewolf1

5

Folklorists stress its bodily weight as proof that it is a revenant and not a ghost1

Wandisobodde okumudduka?

Omutendera gw'embiro okusinziira ku ngeri ensibuko gye zimunnyonnyolamu (adduka), si kipimo.

Ggwe, ng'otambula nga 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ggwe, ng'odduka mpola nga 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Omuntu omukulu omugumu ng'adduka nnyo nga 24 km/h (15 mph)
Aufhocker nga 24 km/h (15 mph)
Omuvuzi wa ggaali ow'embiro nga 37 km/h (23 mph)

Ensibuko

  1. Wiederg%C3%A4nger - Wikipedia

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NachzehrerGerman, 1800WiedergängerGermanFextCzech and central European, 1630

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