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Galmee Lak. 424, 446 keessaa

Gjenganger

Maqaa biraa: genganger, gengångare, attergangar, gjenferd, genfærd
Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eDu'a ykn awwaalcha hamaa

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

Lolsiisi
Ka'umsa
Scandinavian
Noorweey, Denmaark, Siwiidin
Maaltu isa fida
Du'a ykn awwaalcha hamaa
A violent or unfinished death leaves the person unable to rest.
Akkamitti isa taata
Murder victims, murderers, suicides and people who left something undone were expected to return.
Beekumsa
Beekumsa muraasa
Bakkeewwan laafoo
  • 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
yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

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

Maddoota

  1. Gjenganger - Wikipedia
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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