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Uppvakningur

Ook wel genoemd: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Folklore en mythenOndoodWisselendHekserij

The uppvakningur is the Icelandic corpse raised by sorcery, as opposed to the dead who walk for their own reasons. The magician has to overpower the body as it climbs from the grave, after which it obeys orders and can be sent to harm or kill an enemy. An accusation of raising a dead man lay behind the first burning for sorcery in Iceland. As a corpse with no will of its own working for a living master, it is the nearest European equivalent of the Haitian zombi.12

Vecht ertegen
Herkomst
Icelandic
IJsland
Wat het veroorzaakt
Hekserij
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Hoe je er een wordt
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Hoe hij beweegt
Wisselend
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Intelligentie
Enige intelligentie
Zwakke plekken
  • 'singing it down' with the right verses
  • cutting off the head and burning the body
  • throwing a ball of yarn into the open grave and holding the thread until it swears not to return
veldnotities

Wat de bronnen zeggen

1

Distinguished from the afturganga, who comes back of its own will12

2

Once beaten, the corpse asks what its master wants done12

3

A raised corpse dispatched to kill is called a sending12

4

Jón Rögnvaldsson, the first man burned for sorcery in Iceland, was accused of raising a dead man and sending him against a neighbour's farm12

5

Such dead wear out over time; one is described walking on its knees after its feet had rotted away12

6

Folklorist Björk Bjarnadóttir compares Icelandic ghosts to zombies because they are solid12

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)
Uppvakningur 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)

Bronnen

  1. We asked a folklorist for all the spooky details - The Reykjavík Grapevine
  2. Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft

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Folklore uit dezelfde landen

DraugrNorse, 1250GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200Deacon of MyrkáIcelandic, 1860HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / Germanic

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