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Nachzehrer

Er numnà: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater

Folclore e mitusNunmortSa mova struschIna mala mort u in mal sepuliment1500 fin 1899

The Nachzehrer is the German shroud-eater, a corpse that kills without getting up. By chewing its grave clothes it was thought to drag its surviving relatives after it one by one, by malice or simply from wanting company. The belief gave communities a reason to open graves during outbreaks of disease and helped shape learned debate about the 'masticating dead' in the 18th century. It represents the stationary end of the revenant spectrum, where the corpse is dangerous but does not walk.1 2

Documentà l'emprima giada

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

Origin

German

Germania, Pologna

Tge che chaschuna quai

Ina mala mort u in mal sepuliment

Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.

Co ch'ins daventa in

Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.

Co ch'el sa mova

Sa mova strusch

It need not leave the grave at all: lying there, it chews its shroud and draws the life out of its kin at a distance.

Intelligenza

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Antica Temp medieval 1500 fin 1899 1900 fin 1967 1968 fin 1999 2000 fin 2009 2010 fin oz

1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

notizias da champ

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1

The name means roughly 'after-devourer'1 2

2

It gnaws its own shroud and clothing, which was treated as the commonest sign1 2

3

Other signs on exhumation: open eyes or mouth, red lips, a soft body, a thumb clasped in the opposite hand1 2

4

Often, though not always, blamed for epidemics1 2

5

Belief centred on northern Germany, with reports from Silesia and Bavaria1 2

6

Michael Ranft devoted a 1734 treatise to the 'chewing and smacking of the dead in their graves'1 2

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