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Welsh revenant of Hereford

Era ayitibwa: William Laudun's revenant, Walter Map's Welshman
Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaAbafu abalamuKyawukanaOkufa obubi oba okuziikibwa obubiEmirembe egya wakati

Walter Map tells of a dead Welshman who walked nightly near Hereford and summoned his neighbours to death by name. The bishop's prescribed cure of holy water and a cut neck failed, and the haunting ended only when the knight William Laudun pursued the corpse to its grave and beheaded it. The name-calling motif turns up again centuries later in the Greek vrykolakas. Map also records gentler cases settled by a cross on the grave or priestly absolution.12

Lwanyisa
Yasooka okuwandiikibwa
1185
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192
Gy'ava
Medieval English / Welsh borders
Bungereza
Ekikireeta
Okufa obubi oba okuziikibwa obubi
Map says the man died 'unchristianly'.
Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo
A Welshman who died without a Christian end.
Engeri gy'atambulamu
Kyawukana
Walks back from his grave into the village each night and calls residents by name.
Amagezi
Mugezi
Ebifo ebinafu
  • holy water on the body and grave (tried first, and failed)
  • splitting the head from the neck with a sword
ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

1

Everyone he named fell ill and died within three days12

2

The English knight William Laudun took the case to Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford12

3

The bishop advised exhuming the body, cutting the neck with a spade and sprinkling holy water12

4

The remedy did not work, and the corpse then called Laudun's own name12

5

Laudun chased it back to the grave and cut off its head himself12

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

Ensibuko

  1. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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