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Buckinghamshire revenant

Rinonziwo: Buckingham ghost
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This is the first of four walking-corpse cases in William of Newburgh's chronicle. A Buckinghamshire man returns from the grave to his wife's bed, then harasses his family and their livestock until the whole neighbourhood is keeping night watches. The bishop refuses to authorise cremation and has a scroll of absolution laid on the dead man's breast instead, which ends the visits. It is the mildest of Newburgh's cases, with no deaths, and shows the Church trying to manage a popular demand for destroying the corpse.12

Ita hondo
Kutanga kunyorwa
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Kwakabva
Medieval English
United Kingdom
Chikonzero chacho
Hazvina kumbotsanangurwa
Newburgh gives no cause beyond the fact of the man's death and burial.
Mafambiro aro
Rinokweva makumbo
Returns to his own bed at night and lies on his wife with crushing weight; later walks about in daylight, visible only to some.
Njere
Njere shoma
Utera
  • a letter of absolution from the Bishop of Lincoln placed on the corpse's chest

Rakatanga kuoneka riini?

William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s

zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

1

Buried on the eve of Ascension Day and back in his wife's bed the following night12

2

Driven off by the household's watch, he turned on his brothers and then on the animals12

3

Newburgh had the story from Stephen, the local archdeacon12

4

Locals wanted the body dug up and burned; Bishop Hugh of Lincoln judged that indecent12

5

When the tomb was opened to insert the absolution the body lay just as it had been buried12

Waigona kuritiza uchimhanya?

Chikamu chekumhanya chinobva pamatsananguriro anoita zvinyorwa (rinokweva makumbo), kwete chiyero.

Buckinghamshire revenant zvinenge 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Iwe, uchifamba zvinenge 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Iwe, uchimhanya-mhanya zvinenge 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Munhu mukuru akasimba achimhanya nesimba rese zvinenge 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mutasvi webhasikoro anomhanya zvinenge 37 km/h (23 mph)

Zvinyorwa

  1. William of Newburgh, History, Book 5 - Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
  2. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)

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