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Illustration of Lithuanian returning dead
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Lithuanian returning dead

Sidoo kale loo yaqaan: sugrįžtantys numirėliai, numirėlis, walking dead of Lithuania
Khuraafaad iyo ugaarsiDhintayDhimasho ama xabaalid xunQarniyadii dhexe

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

Dagaal geli
Markii ugu horreysay ee la diiwaangeliyay
1350
Deviant burials of the 14th-17th centuries; legends recorded by modern folklorists
Asal
Lithuanian
Lithuania
Waxa sababa
Dhimasho ama xabaalid xun
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.
Sida aad mid u noqotid
An unexpected or wrongful death, a sinful life, or interference with the grave.
Caqli
Caqli yar
Meelaha daciifka ah
  • decapitation of the exhumed corpse
  • burial face down or on the side
  • physical force
  • the intervention of a priest

Goorma ayuu markii ugu horreysay soo baxay?

Adduunka horeQarniyadii dhexe1500 ilaa 18991900 ilaa 19671968 ilaa 19992000 ilaa 20092010 ilaa maanta1350

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

qoraallada goobta

Waxa ilaha yidhaahdaan

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

Ilaha

  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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