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Kodukäija

Rinonziwo: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Ngano nezvitendero zvekareVakafa vakamukaZvinosiyanaRufu rwakaipa kana kuvigwa kwakaipa1500 kusvika 1899

The kodukäija is the restless dead of Estonian folk belief, a deceased person who returns to the farm outside the sanctioned autumn 'time of souls'. It ranges from a worried parent checking on children to a hostile corpse that wrestles travellers by moonlight and kills livestock. Estonian funerals carried a whole apparatus against it, from sweeping away the mourners' footprints to burying the body face down. It is the Baltic-Finnic counterpart of the Scandinavian gjenganger and the German Wiedergänger, and it remained a living belief into the 20th century.12

Ita hondo
Kutanga kunyorwa
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Kwakabva
Estonian
Estonia
Chikonzero chacho
Rufu rwakaipa kana kuvigwa kwakaipa
Folklorist Eha Viluoja traces most returns to a flaw in the passage out of life: a violent or lonely death, a botched or missing funeral, or the dead person's last wishes being ignored.
Kuti munhu anova zombie sei
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Mafambiro aro
Zvinosiyana
Usually walks, with a normal or a bobbing gait, in its own likeness or grave clothes; it can also come as a dog, cat or other animal, or as a moving haystack, sack or whirlwind.
Njere
Njere shoma
Utera
  • wolves, which were held to be as deadly to it as lightning
  • a beating with a rowan or juniper stick or a nine-knotted whip
  • a silver bullet or quicksilver
  • crosses, knives, salt or flax seed at thresholds and gates
  • binding or crippling the corpse, or burying it face down
  • a cock's crow, which halts it for the night

Rakatanga kuoneka riini?

Nyika yekareNguva dzepakati1500 kusvika 18991900 kusvika 19671968 kusvika 19992000 kusvika 20092010 kusvika nhasi1860

Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older

zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

1

The name means 'home-walker': a dead person who comes home at the wrong time12

2

It is cold to the touch and can pinch, strike, scratch or try to strangle12

3

It lets cattle loose, rumbles in the loft and imitates the sounds of work12

4

Dogs with spots over the eyes ('four-eyed' dogs) can see it12

5

The Estonian Folklore Archives hold about 3,600 records of it, seven times more than for the ordinary autumn visit of ancestral souls12

6

Viluoja notes that blood-drinking, vampire-type dead are not part of the Estonian tradition12

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)
Kodukäija 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. Eha Viluoja, 'Manifestations of the Revenant in Estonian Folk Tradition', Folklore 2
  2. Eha Viluoja, 'Relations Between the Living and the Dead in Estonian Folk Religion', Folklore 4

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Nguva imwe chete: 1500 kusvika 1899

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