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Kirkonväki

Znany też jako: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Folklor i mityNieumarłyRóżnieOd 1500 do 1899

Kirkonväki is the Finnish name for the dead as a body, the population of the churchyard acting together. Finnish legend gives them corporeal form, as a congregation of decaying corpses that fills the church at night and mauls any living intruder, though everyday belief treated them more as an invisible, foul-smelling force. They enforced respect for graves and proper burial and could be weaponised by cunning folk. They are the closest thing in Finnish tradition to a horde of the walking dead.1

Stań do walki
Pierwsza wzmianka
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Pochodzenie
Finnish
Finlandia
Co je wywołuje
Inne
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Jak się nim zostaje
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Jak się porusza
Różnie
In legends they gather in the church at night as a solid crowd; in personal accounts they pass as a swarm of small figures in the air.
Inteligencja
Trochę inteligencji
Słabe punkty
  • precautions when crossing churchyard boundaries
  • leaving something behind: in one legend a man escapes by dropping his fur coat on the church threshold, and the dead tear the coat apart

Kiedy pojawił się po raz pierwszy?

Świat starożytnyŚredniowieczeOd 1500 do 1899Od 1900 do 1967Od 1968 do 1999Od 2000 do 2009Od 2010 do dziś1551

Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s

notatki terenowe

Co mówią źródła

1

The word means 'churchyard folk', but väki also carries an older sense of 'force' or 'power'1

2

In legends they look like ordinary people or like rotting corpses and skeletons1

3

A migratory legend tells of the dead holding their own Christmas service and attacking a living person who walks in1

4

They reek of death; seers can see them, others only smell them1

5

Churchyard soil, bones or splinters of grave markers could be used to 'send' them against an enemy or set them on a thief1

6

Kaarina Koski's study draws on more than 2,000 records in the Finnish Literature Society's archives, richest in Ostrobothnia1

Czy dałbyś radę uciec?

Klasa prędkości na podstawie opisu w źródłach (różnie), a nie pomiar.

Ty, idący około 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ty, biegnący około 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki około 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Sprintujący dorosły w formie około 24 km/h (15 mph)
Szybki rowerzysta około 37 km/h (23 mph)

Źródła

  1. Kaarina Koski, 'Conceptual Analysis and Variation in Belief Tradition: A Case of Death-Related Beings', Folklore 38 (2008)

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