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Illustration of Uppvakningur
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Dosiye No. 441 kuri 446

Uppvakningur

Yitwa kandi: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Imigani n'inkuru za keraAbapfuye bazimaBiratandukanyeUbupfumu

The uppvakningur is the Icelandic corpse raised by sorcery, as opposed to the dead who walk for their own reasons. The magician has to overpower the body as it climbs from the grave, after which it obeys orders and can be sent to harm or kill an enemy. An accusation of raising a dead man lay behind the first burning for sorcery in Iceland. As a corpse with no will of its own working for a living master, it is the nearest European equivalent of the Haitian zombi.12

Bashyire ku murwano
Inkomoko
Icelandic
Isilande
Icyayiteye
Ubupfumu
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Uko igenda
Biratandukanye
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Ubwenge
Ifite ubwenge buke
Intege nke
  • 'singing it down' with the right verses
  • cutting off the head and burning the body
  • throwing a ball of yarn into the open grave and holding the thread until it swears not to return
inyandiko zo ku kibuga

Ibyo amasoko avuga

1

Distinguished from the afturganga, who comes back of its own will12

2

Once beaten, the corpse asks what its master wants done12

3

A raised corpse dispatched to kill is called a sending12

4

Jón Rögnvaldsson, the first man burned for sorcery in Iceland, was accused of raising a dead man and sending him against a neighbour's farm12

5

Such dead wear out over time; one is described walking on its knees after its feet had rotted away12

6

Folklorist Björk Bjarnadóttir compares Icelandic ghosts to zombies because they are solid12

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
Uppvakningur nka km/h 10
Umuntu mukuru ufite imbaraga wiruka cyane nka km/h 24
Umunyonzi wihuta nka km/h 37

Amasoko

  1. We asked a folklorist for all the spooky details - The Reykjavík Grapevine
  2. Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft

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DraugrNorse, 1250GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200Deacon of MyrkáIcelandic, 1860HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / Germanic

Ibindi nk'ibi

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Gaburira igikundiTanga agashimwe