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Nachzehrer

Maqaa biraa: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater

Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eHammas hin sochoo'uDu'a ykn awwaalcha hamaa1500 hanga 1899

The Nachzehrer is the German shroud-eater, a corpse that kills without getting up. By chewing its grave clothes it was thought to drag its surviving relatives after it one by one, by malice or simply from wanting company. The belief gave communities a reason to open graves during outbreaks of disease and helped shape learned debate about the 'masticating dead' in the 18th century. It represents the stationary end of the revenant spectrum, where the corpse is dangerous but does not walk.1 2

Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

Ka'umsa

German

Jarmanii, Poolaand

Maaltu isa fida

Du'a ykn awwaalcha hamaa

Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.

Akkamitti isa taata

Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.

Akkamitti sochoo'a

Hammas hin sochoo'u

It need not leave the grave at all: lying there, it chews its shroud and draws the life out of its kin at a distance.

Beekumsa

Beekumsa muraasa

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

Addunyaa durii Jaarraa Gidduugaleessaa 1500 hanga 1899 1900 hanga 1967 1968 hanga 1999 2000 hanga 2009 2010 hanga har'aa

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

1

The name means roughly 'after-devourer'1 2

2

It gnaws its own shroud and clothing, which was treated as the commonest sign1 2

3

Other signs on exhumation: open eyes or mouth, red lips, a soft body, a thumb clasped in the opposite hand1 2

4

Often, though not always, blamed for epidemics1 2

5

Belief centred on northern Germany, with reports from Silesia and Bavaria1 2

6

Michael Ranft devoted a 1734 treatise to the 'chewing and smacking of the dead in their graves'1 2

Maddoota

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StrzygaPolish and Silesian, 1863

UpiórSlavic, 1100

Pień padlocked burialPolish, 1650

Shoemaker of BreslauSilesian (German), 1591

WiedergängerGerman

AufhockerGerman

Bara wal fakkaataa: 1500 hanga 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

StrigoiRomanian, 1714

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725

AbhartachIrish, 1870

Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732

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