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Lithuanian returning dead

Também chamado: sugrįžtantys numirėliai, numirėlis, walking dead of Lithuania
Folclore e mitosMorto-vivoUma morte ou um enterro mal feitoIdade Média

Lithuania kept a strong tradition of the dangerous dead long after its conversion to Christianity. Cemeteries of the 14th to 17th centuries contain bodies deliberately beheaded, dismembered or turned face down, which archaeologists connect with fear of corpses returning. Lithuanian legends collected in modern times still describe meetings with the 'walking dead', usually brought on by disrespect for a grave. The material and the stories together give a Baltic counterpart to the revenant evidence from England and Poland.12

Combatê-lo
Primeiro registo
1350
Deviant burials of the 14th-17th centuries; legends recorded by modern folklorists
Origem
Lithuanian
Lituânia
O que o causa
Uma morte ou um enterro mal feito
Folklore names the untimely dead and the very sinful as those who return; the legends add that the living provoke them by disturbing remains or grave goods.
Como te tornas um
An unexpected or wrongful death, a sinful life, or interference with the grave.
Inteligência
Alguma inteligência
Pontos fracos
  • decapitation of the exhumed corpse
  • burial face down or on the side
  • physical force
  • the intervention of a priest

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
1350

Deviant burials of the 14th-17th centuries; legends recorded by modern folklorists

notas de campo

O que dizem as fontes

1

Archaeologist Gintautas Vėlius documented headless, limbless and prone burials in Christian-era Lithuanian cemeteries12

2

He interprets posthumous beheading as exhumation carried out from fear of the returning dead12

3

Many prone male burials contain weapons, suggesting men killed in battle12

4

In legends analysed by Edita Korzonaitė, short tales end with the living person's death and longer ones with a narrow escape12

5

Priests in the legends sometimes use methods with no obvious Christian basis12

Fontes

  1. Gintautas Vėlius, 'Sugrįžtantys numirėliai' (Returning dead: unconventional burials in medieval Lithuania), Lietuvos istorijos studijos 25 (2010)
  2. Edita Korzonaitė, 'Human contacts with the dead: relationship of fable and reality in folklore', Tautosakos darbai 25 (2003)

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