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Kodukäija

Ook wel genoemd: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Folklore en mythenOndoodWisselendEen slechte dood of begrafenis1500 tot 1899

The kodukäija is the restless dead of Estonian folk belief, a deceased person who returns to the farm outside the sanctioned autumn 'time of souls'. It ranges from a worried parent checking on children to a hostile corpse that wrestles travellers by moonlight and kills livestock. Estonian funerals carried a whole apparatus against it, from sweeping away the mourners' footprints to burying the body face down. It is the Baltic-Finnic counterpart of the Scandinavian gjenganger and the German Wiedergänger, and it remained a living belief into the 20th century.12

Vecht ertegen
Eerst vastgelegd
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Herkomst
Estonian
Estland
Wat het veroorzaakt
Een slechte dood of begrafenis
Folklorist Eha Viluoja traces most returns to a flaw in the passage out of life: a violent or lonely death, a botched or missing funeral, or the dead person's last wishes being ignored.
Hoe je er een wordt
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Hoe hij beweegt
Wisselend
Usually walks, with a normal or a bobbing gait, in its own likeness or grave clothes; it can also come as a dog, cat or other animal, or as a moving haystack, sack or whirlwind.
Intelligentie
Enige intelligentie
Zwakke plekken
  • wolves, which were held to be as deadly to it as lightning
  • a beating with a rowan or juniper stick or a nine-knotted whip
  • a silver bullet or quicksilver
  • crosses, knives, salt or flax seed at thresholds and gates
  • binding or crippling the corpse, or burying it face down
  • a cock's crow, which halts it for the night

Wanneer verscheen hij voor het eerst?

Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older

veldnotities

Wat de bronnen zeggen

1

The name means 'home-walker': a dead person who comes home at the wrong time12

2

It is cold to the touch and can pinch, strike, scratch or try to strangle12

3

It lets cattle loose, rumbles in the loft and imitates the sounds of work12

4

Dogs with spots over the eyes ('four-eyed' dogs) can see it12

5

The Estonian Folklore Archives hold about 3,600 records of it, seven times more than for the ordinary autumn visit of ancestral souls12

6

Viluoja notes that blood-drinking, vampire-type dead are not part of the Estonian tradition12

Zou je hem kunnen ontlopen?

Snelheidsklasse op basis van hoe de bronnen het beschrijven (wisselend), geen meting.

Jij, lopend ongeveer 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Jij, joggend ongeveer 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kodukäija ongeveer 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Een fitte volwassene in een sprint ongeveer 24 km/h (15 mph)
Een snelle wielrenner ongeveer 37 km/h (23 mph)

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Zelfde tijdperk: 1500 tot 1899

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