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Gjenganger

Imadziwikanso kuti: genganger, gengångare, attergangar, gjenferd, genfærd
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The gjenganger is the walking dead of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish folk belief and the direct heir of the saga draugr. Early accounts make it a solid, violent corpse that torments its own family; later ones turn it into a carrier of sickness whose pinch leaves a mark that spreads to the heart. Burial customs across Scandinavia were designed to keep it in the grave. Its slow change from corpse to ghost tracks the wider European retreat of belief in the bodily dead.12

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Kochokera
Scandinavian
Norway, Denmark, Sweden
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A violent or unfinished death leaves the person unable to rest.
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Murder victims, murderers, suicides and people who left something undone were expected to return.
Nzeru
Nzeru pang'ono
Malo ofooka
  • the sign of the cross painted or carved on the house
  • Christian prayers and crucifixes
  • carrying the coffin three times round the church before burial
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1

The name means 'again-walker'; German Wiedergänger is the same idea12

2

In Scandinavian tradition it is wholly physical, with no spectral qualities12

3

Later lore made it a spreader of disease through the dødningeknip, the 'dead man's pinch', inflicted on sleepers12

4

Cairns called varp marked death sites, and travellers added a stone or twig in passing12

5

In modern usage it has faded into an ordinary ghost12

Magwero

  1. Gjenganger - Wikipedia
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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