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Lithuanian returning dead

Rinonziwo: sugrįžtantys numirėliai, numirėlis, walking dead of Lithuania
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Lithuania kept a strong tradition of the dangerous dead long after its conversion to Christianity. Cemeteries of the 14th to 17th centuries contain bodies deliberately beheaded, dismembered or turned face down, which archaeologists connect with fear of corpses returning. Lithuanian legends collected in modern times still describe meetings with the 'walking dead', usually brought on by disrespect for a grave. The material and the stories together give a Baltic counterpart to the revenant evidence from England and Poland.12

Ita hondo
Kutanga kunyorwa
1350
Deviant burials of the 14th-17th centuries; legends recorded by modern folklorists
Kwakabva
Lithuanian
Lithuania
Chikonzero chacho
Rufu rwakaipa kana kuvigwa kwakaipa
Folklore names the untimely dead and the very sinful as those who return; the legends add that the living provoke them by disturbing remains or grave goods.
Kuti munhu anova zombie sei
An unexpected or wrongful death, a sinful life, or interference with the grave.
Njere
Njere shoma
Utera
  • decapitation of the exhumed corpse
  • burial face down or on the side
  • physical force
  • the intervention of a priest

Rakatanga kuoneka riini?

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Deviant burials of the 14th-17th centuries; legends recorded by modern folklorists

zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

1

Archaeologist Gintautas Vėlius documented headless, limbless and prone burials in Christian-era Lithuanian cemeteries12

2

He interprets posthumous beheading as exhumation carried out from fear of the returning dead12

3

Many prone male burials contain weapons, suggesting men killed in battle12

4

In legends analysed by Edita Korzonaitė, short tales end with the living person's death and longer ones with a narrow escape12

5

Priests in the legends sometimes use methods with no obvious Christian basis12

Zvinyorwa

  1. Gintautas Vėlius, 'Sugrįžtantys numirėliai' (Returning dead: unconventional burials in medieval Lithuania), Lietuvos istorijos studijos 25 (2010)
  2. Edita Korzonaitė, 'Human contacts with the dead: relationship of fable and reality in folklore', Tautosakos darbai 25 (2003)

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