
Welsh revenant of Hereford
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
- holy water on the body and grave (tried first, and failed)
- splitting the head from the neck with a sword
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Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192
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