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Gjenganger

Er numnà: genganger, gengångare, attergangar, gjenferd, genfærd
Folclore e mitusNunmortIna mala mort u in mal sepuliment

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

Al cumbat
Origin
Scandinavian
Norvegia, Danemarc, Svezia
Tge che chaschuna quai
Ina mala mort u in mal sepuliment
A violent or unfinished death leaves the person unable to rest.
Co ch'ins daventa in
Murder victims, murderers, suicides and people who left something undone were expected to return.
Intelligenza
Intgina intelligenza
Puncts flaivels
  • 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
notizias da champ

Tge che las funtaunas din

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

Funtaunas

  1. Gjenganger - Wikipedia
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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Folclore da las medemas terras

DraugrNorse, 1250AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / GermanicKárr the OldNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300Sea draugNorwegian, 1741

Dapli da quest gener

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
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