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Kirkonväki

Taip pat vadinamas: 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

Kovoti su juo
Pirmasis įrašas
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Kilmė
Finnish
Suomija
Kas jį sukelia
Kita
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Kaip tampi vienu iš jų
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Kaip jis juda
Skiriasi
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.
Intelektas
Šiek tiek intelekto
Silpnosios vietos
  • 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

Kada jis pirmą kartą pasirodė?

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

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Ką sako šaltiniai

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

Ar sugebėtum nuo jo pabėgti?

Greičio klasė pagal šaltinių aprašymą (skiriasi), o ne matavimas.

Tu, einantis apie 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Tu, bėgiojantis apie 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki apie 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Fiziškai pasiruošęs suaugęs, bėgantis sprintu apie 24 km/h (15 mph)
Greitas dviratininkas apie 37 km/h (23 mph)

Šaltiniai

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

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