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Kodukäija

Sidoo kale loo yaqaan: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Khuraafaad iyo ugaarsiDhintayWay kala duwan yihiinDhimasho ama xabaalid xun1500 ilaa 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

Dagaal geli
Markii ugu horreysay ee la diiwaangeliyay
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Asal
Estonian
Estonia
Waxa sababa
Dhimasho ama xabaalid xun
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.
Sida aad mid u noqotid
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Sida uu u dhaqaaqo
Way kala duwan yihiin
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.
Caqli
Caqli yar
Meelaha daciifka ah
  • 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

Goorma ayuu markii ugu horreysay soo baxay?

Adduunka horeQarniyadii dhexe1500 ilaa 18991900 ilaa 19671968 ilaa 19992000 ilaa 20092010 ilaa maanta1860

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

qoraallada goobta

Waxa ilaha yidhaahdaan

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

Ma ka orodi lahayd?

Fasalka xawaaraha iyadoo laga eegayo sida ilaha u sifeeyaan (way kala duwan yihiin), ma aha cabbir.

Adiga, socod qiyaastii 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Adiga, orod fudud qiyaastii 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kodukäija qiyaastii 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Qof weyn oo jir ahaan fiican oo orod ku jira qiyaastii 24 km/h (15 mph)
Baaskiil-raac degdeg ah qiyaastii 37 km/h (23 mph)

Ilaha

  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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Isla xilligaas: 1500 ilaa 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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