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Illustration of Uppvakningur
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Faylka No. 441 ee 446

Uppvakningur

Sidoo kale loo yaqaan: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Khuraafaad iyo ugaarsiDhintayWay kala duwan yihiinSixir

The uppvakningur is the Icelandic corpse raised by sorcery, as opposed to the dead who walk for their own reasons. The magician has to overpower the body as it climbs from the grave, after which it obeys orders and can be sent to harm or kill an enemy. An accusation of raising a dead man lay behind the first burning for sorcery in Iceland. As a corpse with no will of its own working for a living master, it is the nearest European equivalent of the Haitian zombi.12

Dagaal geli
Asal
Icelandic
Iceland
Waxa sababa
Sixir
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Sida aad mid u noqotid
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Sida uu u dhaqaaqo
Way kala duwan yihiin
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Caqli
Caqli yar
Meelaha daciifka ah
  • 'singing it down' with the right verses
  • cutting off the head and burning the body
  • throwing a ball of yarn into the open grave and holding the thread until it swears not to return
qoraallada goobta

Waxa ilaha yidhaahdaan

1

Distinguished from the afturganga, who comes back of its own will12

2

Once beaten, the corpse asks what its master wants done12

3

A raised corpse dispatched to kill is called a sending12

4

Jón Rögnvaldsson, the first man burned for sorcery in Iceland, was accused of raising a dead man and sending him against a neighbour's farm12

5

Such dead wear out over time; one is described walking on its knees after its feet had rotted away12

6

Folklorist Björk Bjarnadóttir compares Icelandic ghosts to zombies because they are solid12

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)
Uppvakningur 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. We asked a folklorist for all the spooky details - The Reykjavík Grapevine
  2. Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft

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Khuraafaad ka yimid dhulalkaas

DraugrNorse, 1250GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200Deacon of MyrkáIcelandic, 1860HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / Germanic

Wax la mid ah

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)