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Kirkonväki

Также известен как: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Фольклор и мифыНежитьПо-разному1500–1899

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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Первое упоминание
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Происхождение
Finnish
Финляндия
Что его вызывает
Другое
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Как им становятся
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Как он двигается
По-разному
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.
Интеллект
Немного ума
Слабые места
  • 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

Когда он впервые появился?

Древний мирСредневековье1500–18991900–19671968–19992000–20092010 – наше время1551

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

полевые заметки

Что говорят источники

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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Вы, идущий шагом около 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Вы, бегущий трусцой около 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki около 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Подготовленный взрослый в спринте около 24 km/h (15 mph)
Быстрый велосипедист около 37 km/h (23 mph)

Источники

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

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