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Kirkonväki

Yitwa kandi: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Imigani n'inkuru za keraAbapfuye bazimaBiratandukanye1500 kugeza 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

Bashyire ku murwano
Yanditswe bwa mbere
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Inkomoko
Finnish
Finilande
Icyayiteye
Ibindi
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Uko igenda
Biratandukanye
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.
Ubwenge
Ifite ubwenge buke
Intege nke
  • 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

Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?

Isi ya keraIbihe byo hagati1500 kugeza 18991900 kugeza 19671968 kugeza 19992000 kugeza 20092010 kugeza ubu1551

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

inyandiko zo ku kibuga

Ibyo amasoko avuga

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

Wayisiga wiruka?

Icyiciro cy'umuvuduko gishingiye ku buryo amasoko ayisobanura (biratandukanye), si igipimo.

Wowe, ugenda n'amaguru nka km/h 5
Wowe, wiruka buhoro nka km/h 10
Kirkonväki nka km/h 10
Umuntu mukuru ufite imbaraga wiruka cyane nka km/h 24
Umunyonzi wihuta nka km/h 37

Amasoko

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

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Ibihe bimwe: 1500 kugeza 1899

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