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Kirkonväki

Rinonziwo: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Ngano nezvitendero zvekareVakafa vakamukaZvinosiyana1500 kusvika 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

Ita hondo
Kutanga kunyorwa
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Kwakabva
Finnish
Finland
Chikonzero chacho
Zvimwe
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Kuti munhu anova zombie sei
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Mafambiro aro
Zvinosiyana
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.
Njere
Njere shoma
Utera
  • 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

Rakatanga kuoneka riini?

Nyika yekareNguva dzepakati1500 kusvika 18991900 kusvika 19671968 kusvika 19992000 kusvika 20092010 kusvika nhasi1551

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

zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

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

Waigona kuritiza uchimhanya?

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

Iwe, uchifamba zvinenge 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Iwe, uchimhanya-mhanya zvinenge 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki 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. Kaarina Koski, 'Conceptual Analysis and Variation in Belief Tradition: A Case of Death-Related Beings', Folklore 38 (2008)

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Nguva imwe chete: 1500 kusvika 1899

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