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Kodukäija

Er numnà: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Folclore e mitusNunmortVariabelIna mala mort u in mal sepuliment1500 fin 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

Al cumbat
Documentà l'emprima giada
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Origin
Estonian
Estonia
Tge che chaschuna quai
Ina mala mort u in mal sepuliment
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.
Co ch'ins daventa in
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Co ch'el sa mova
Variabel
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.
Intelligenza
Intgina intelligenza
Puncts flaivels
  • 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

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

notizias da champ

Tge che las funtaunas din

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

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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)
Kodukäija 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. 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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Medema epoca: 1500 fin 1899

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