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Kirkonväki

Өөр нэр: 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

Тулаанд оруулах
Анх тэмдэглэгдсэн
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Гарал үүсэл
Finnish
Финланд
Юунаас үүдэлтэй
Бусад
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Хэрхэн зомби болдог
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Хэрхэн хөдөлдөг
Янз бүр
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.
Оюун ухаан
Бага зэрэг ухаантай
Сул цэгүүд
  • 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

Анх хэзээ гарч ирсэн бэ?

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

хээрийн тэмдэглэл

Эх сурвалж юу гэж байна

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

Чи түүнээс зугтаж чадах уу?

Хурдны ангиллыг эх сурвалжийн тайлбараар (янз бүр) тогтоосон, хэмжилт биш.

Чи, алхахад ойролцоогоор 5 км/ц
Чи, аажуу гүйхэд ойролцоогоор 10 км/ц
Kirkonväki ойролцоогоор 10 км/ц
Хурдлан гүйж буй чийрэг насанд хүрэгч ойролцоогоор 24 км/ц
Хурдан дугуйчин ойролцоогоор 37 км/ц

Эх сурвалж

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

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Ижил эрин: 1500-1899 он

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