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Kirkonväki

Er numnà: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Folclore e mitusNunmortVariabel1500 fin 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

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Documentà l'emprima giada
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Origin
Finnish
Finlanda
Tge che chaschuna quai
Auter
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Co ch'ins daventa in
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Co ch'el sa mova
Variabel
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.
Intelligenza
Intgina intelligenza
Puncts flaivels
  • 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

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AnticaTemp medieval1500 fin 18991900 fin 19671968 fin 19992000 fin 20092010 fin oz1551

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

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Tge che las funtaunas din

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

Fissas ti pli svelt?

Classa da sveltezza tenor la descripziun en las funtaunas (variabel), betg ina mesiraziun.

Ti, a pe var 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, a la currida var 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki var 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
In creschì sportiv en sprint var 24 km/h (15 mph)
In ciclist svelt var 37 km/h (23 mph)

Funtaunas

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

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Medema epoca: 1500 fin 1899

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