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Kodukäija

Cunoscut și ca: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Folclor și mituriNemortVariazăO moarte sau o înmormântare nefericită1500–1899

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

Luptă cu el
Prima mențiune
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Origine
Estonian
Estonia
Ce o provoacă
O moarte sau o înmormântare nefericită
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.
Cum devii unul
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Cum se mișcă
Variază
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.
Inteligență
Ceva inteligență
Puncte slabe
  • 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

Când a apărut prima dată?

Lumea anticăEvul Mediu1500–18991900–19671968–19992000–20092010 – prezent1860

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

note de teren

Ce spun sursele

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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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)
Kodukäija 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. 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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Aceeași epocă: 1500–1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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