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Kirkonväki

Cunoscut și ca: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Folclor și mituriNemortVariază1500–1899

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

Luptă cu el
Prima mențiune
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Origine
Finnish
Finlanda
Ce o provoacă
Altele
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Cum devii unul
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Cum se mișcă
Variază
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.
Inteligență
Ceva inteligență
Puncte slabe
  • 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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Lumea anticăEvul Mediu1500–18991900–19671968–19992000–20092010 – prezent1551

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

note de teren

Ce spun sursele

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

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Clasa de viteză după cum descriu sursele (variază), nu o măsurătoare.

Tu, mergând cam 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Tu, la jogging cam 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki cam 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adult în formă, la sprint cam 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclist rapid cam 37 km/h (23 mph)

Surse

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

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Aceeași epocă: 1500–1899

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