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Kirkonväki

ຍັງເອີ້ນວ່າ: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset

Kirkonväki is the Finnish name for the dead as a body, the population of the churchyard acting together. Finnish legend gives them corporeal form, as a congregation of decaying corpses that fills the church at night and mauls any living intruder, though everyday belief treated them more as an invisible, foul-smelling force. They enforced respect for graves and proper burial and could be weaponised by cunning folk. They are the closest thing in Finnish tradition to a horde of the walking dead.1

ສູ້ກັນເລີຍ
ບັນທຶກຄັ້ງທຳອິດ
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
ຕົ້ນກຳເນີດ
Finnish
ຟິນແລນ
ສາເຫດມາຈາກຫຍັງ
ອື່ນໆ
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
ກາຍເປັນມັນໄດ້ແນວໃດ
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
ວິທີເຄື່ອນໄຫວ
ແຕກຕ່າງກັນ
In legends they gather in the church at night as a solid crowd; in personal accounts they pass as a swarm of small figures in the air.
ສະຕິປັນຍາ
ມີສະຕິປັນຍາບ້າງ
ຈຸດອ່ອນ
  • precautions when crossing churchyard boundaries
  • leaving something behind: in one legend a man escapes by dropping his fur coat on the church threshold, and the dead tear the coat apart

ມັນປາກົດຄັ້ງທຳອິດເມື່ອໃດ?

Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s

ບັນທຶກພາກສະໜາມ

ແຫຼ່ງຂໍ້ມູນບອກວ່າແນວໃດ

1

The word means 'churchyard folk', but väki also carries an older sense of 'force' or 'power'1

2

In legends they look like ordinary people or like rotting corpses and skeletons1

3

A migratory legend tells of the dead holding their own Christmas service and attacking a living person who walks in1

4

They reek of death; seers can see them, others only smell them1

5

Churchyard soil, bones or splinters of grave markers could be used to 'send' them against an enemy or set them on a thief1

6

Kaarina Koski's study draws on more than 2,000 records in the Finnish Literature Society's archives, richest in Ostrobothnia1

ເຈົ້າຈະແລ່ນໜີມັນທັນບໍ່?

ລະດັບຄວາມໄວອີງຕາມຄຳບັນຍາຍຂອງແຫຼ່ງຂໍ້ມູນ (ແຕກຕ່າງກັນ), ບໍ່ແມ່ນການວັດແທກ.

ເຈົ້າ, ຍ່າງ ປະມານ 5 ກມ/ຊມ
ເຈົ້າ, ແລ່ນເບົາໆ ປະມານ 10 ກມ/ຊມ
Kirkonväki ປະມານ 10 ກມ/ຊມ
ຜູ້ໃຫຍ່ທີ່ແຂງແຮງກຳລັງແລ່ນສຸດແຮງ ປະມານ 24 ກມ/ຊມ
ຄົນຂີ່ລົດຖີບໄວ ປະມານ 37 ກມ/ຊມ

ແຫຼ່ງຂໍ້ມູນ

  1. Kaarina Koski, 'Conceptual Analysis and Variation in Belief Tradition: A Case of Death-Related Beings', Folklore 38 (2008)

ທຸກຂໍ້ເທັດຈິງໃນໜ້ານີ້ມາຈາກແຫຼ່ງເຫຼົ່ານີ້, ຂຽນດ້ວຍຄຳເວົ້າຂອງພວກເຮົາເອງ. ເຫັນຂໍ້ຜິດພາດບໍ່? ບອກພວກເຮົາທີ່ [email protected].

ລ້ຽງຝູງຊອມບີ້. ບໍ່ມີໂຄສະນາ, ບໍ່ມີຕົວຕິດຕາມ, ຄົນດຽວເປັນຜູ້ຈ່າຍ. ທິບຂອງເຈົ້າຊ່ວຍໃຫ້ມັນຢູ່ອອນລາຍຕໍ່ໄປ.ໃຫ້ທິບ

ຍຸກດຽວກັນ: 1500 ຫາ 1899

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