Zalozhnye pokoiniki

වෙනත් නම්: заложные покойники, unclean dead, zalozhny dead

ජනශ්‍රැති සහ මිථ්‍යා කතාමළ-ජීවීනරක මරණයක් හෝ භූමදානයක්

Zalozhnye pokoiniki is the ethnographic term for the East Slavic 'unclean dead', those whose manner of death bars them from rest. They were not given normal burial, and in times of drought or plague villagers dug up such bodies and moved or drowned them, a practice churchmen denounced for centuries. The category underlies most Russian and Ukrainian undead, including the upyr and the rusalka. It is a clear statement of the idea, common to zombie folklore worldwide, that a bad death produces a dangerous corpse.1

සටනට දාන්න

සම්භවය

East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)

රුසියාව, යුක්රේනය, බෙලරුසය

ඒකට හේතුව

නරක මරණයක් හෝ භූමදානයක්

People who die before their time or outside the Church cannot pass on, and the earth is said to refuse their bodies.

ඔයා එකෙක් වෙන හැටි

Suicides, the drowned, the murdered, drunkards, unbaptised children, sorcerers and witches.

දුර්වල තැන්

burial away from the community: at crossroads, field boundaries, in forests, swamps or ravines
covering the grave with stones and branches
exhuming the body and throwing it into a swamp to end a drought

ක්ෂේත්‍ර සටහන්