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Nachzehrer

Babengaka mpe: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater

Masapo mpe makambo ya bankokoMokufi oyo atambolakaAninganaka mingi teLiwa to bokundi ya mabe1500 kino 1899

The Nachzehrer is the German shroud-eater, a corpse that kills without getting up. By chewing its grave clothes it was thought to drag its surviving relatives after it one by one, by malice or simply from wanting company. The belief gave communities a reason to open graves during outbreaks of disease and helped shape learned debate about the 'masticating dead' in the 18th century. It represents the stationary end of the revenant spectrum, where the corpse is dangerous but does not walk.1 2

Ekomamaki mbala ya liboso

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

Esika awuti

German

Alemani, Poloni

Nini ebimisaka yango

Liwa to bokundi ya mabe

Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.

Ndenge okokoma zombi

Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.

Ndenge atambolaka

Aninganaka mingi te

It need not leave the grave at all: lying there, it chews its shroud and draws the life out of its kin at a distance.

Mayele

Mwa mayele

Abimaki mbala ya liboso ntango nini?

Mokili ya kala Eleko ya katikati 1500 kino 1899 1900 kino 1967 1968 kino 1999 2000 kino 2009 2010 kino lelo

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

makomi ya mosala

Oyo maziba ya sango elobi

1

The name means roughly 'after-devourer'1 2

2

It gnaws its own shroud and clothing, which was treated as the commonest sign1 2

3

Other signs on exhumation: open eyes or mouth, red lips, a soft body, a thumb clasped in the opposite hand1 2

4

Often, though not always, blamed for epidemics1 2

5

Belief centred on northern Germany, with reports from Silesia and Bavaria1 2

6

Michael Ranft devoted a 1734 treatise to the 'chewing and smacking of the dead in their graves'1 2

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Masapo ya mikili moko

StrzygaPolish and Silesian, 1863

UpiórSlavic, 1100

Pień padlocked burialPolish, 1650

Shoemaker of BreslauSilesian (German), 1591

WiedergängerGerman

AufhockerGerman

Eleko moko: 1500 kino 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

StrigoiRomanian, 1714

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725

AbhartachIrish, 1870

Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732

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