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Kodukäija

Também chamado: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Folclore e mitosMorto-vivoVariaUma morte ou um enterro mal feitoDe 1500 a 1899

The kodukäija is the restless dead of Estonian folk belief, a deceased person who returns to the farm outside the sanctioned autumn 'time of souls'. It ranges from a worried parent checking on children to a hostile corpse that wrestles travellers by moonlight and kills livestock. Estonian funerals carried a whole apparatus against it, from sweeping away the mourners' footprints to burying the body face down. It is the Baltic-Finnic counterpart of the Scandinavian gjenganger and the German Wiedergänger, and it remained a living belief into the 20th century.12

Combatê-lo
Primeiro registo
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Origem
Estonian
Estónia
O que o causa
Uma morte ou um enterro mal feito
Folklorist Eha Viluoja traces most returns to a flaw in the passage out of life: a violent or lonely death, a botched or missing funeral, or the dead person's last wishes being ignored.
Como te tornas um
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Como se move
Varia
Usually walks, with a normal or a bobbing gait, in its own likeness or grave clothes; it can also come as a dog, cat or other animal, or as a moving haystack, sack or whirlwind.
Inteligência
Alguma inteligência
Pontos fracos
  • wolves, which were held to be as deadly to it as lightning
  • a beating with a rowan or juniper stick or a nine-knotted whip
  • a silver bullet or quicksilver
  • crosses, knives, salt or flax seed at thresholds and gates
  • binding or crippling the corpse, or burying it face down
  • a cock's crow, which halts it for the night

Quando apareceu pela primeira vez?

Mundo antigo
Idade Média
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 até hoje
1860

Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older

notas de campo

O que dizem as fontes

1

The name means 'home-walker': a dead person who comes home at the wrong time12

2

It is cold to the touch and can pinch, strike, scratch or try to strangle12

3

It lets cattle loose, rumbles in the loft and imitates the sounds of work12

4

Dogs with spots over the eyes ('four-eyed' dogs) can see it12

5

The Estonian Folklore Archives hold about 3,600 records of it, seven times more than for the ordinary autumn visit of ancestral souls12

6

Viluoja notes that blood-drinking, vampire-type dead are not part of the Estonian tradition12

Conseguias fugir dele?

Classe de velocidade segundo a descrição das fontes (varia), não uma medição.

Tu, a andar cerca de 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Tu, a correr cerca de 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kodukäija cerca de 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Um adulto em forma a fazer um sprint cerca de 24 km/h (15 mph)
Um ciclista rápido cerca de 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fontes

  1. Eha Viluoja, 'Manifestations of the Revenant in Estonian Folk Tradition', Folklore 2
  2. Eha Viluoja, 'Relations Between the Living and the Dead in Estonian Folk Religion', Folklore 4

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Mesma época: De 1500 a 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732