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Kirkonväki

Nazývaný aj: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset

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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Prvý záznam
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Pôvod
Finnish
Fínsko
Čo ho spôsobuje
Iné
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Ako sa ním stanete
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Ako sa pohybuje
Rôzne
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.
Inteligencia
Trocha inteligencie
Slabé miesta
  • 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

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

terénne poznámky

Čo hovoria zdroje

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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Rýchlostná trieda podľa opisu v zdrojoch (rôzne), nie meranie.

Vy, pri chôdzi asi 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Vy, pri behu asi 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki asi 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Šprintujúci dospelý v kondícii asi 24 km/h (15 mph)
Rýchly cyklista asi 37 km/h (23 mph)

Zdroje

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

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