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Kodukäija

Njihet edhe si: kodukäijad, home-wanderer, Estonian revenant
Folklor dhe mitTë vdekur të gjallëNdryshonNjë vdekje ose varrim i keq1500 deri në 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

Në betejë
Regjistrimi i parë
1860
Systematic records begin with Jakob Hurt's folklore collection (1860-1906); the belief itself is older
Origjina
Estonian
Estonia
Çfarë e shkakton
Një vdekje ose varrim i keq
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.
Si bëhesh i tillë
Spiteful people, suspected witches, misers, the murdered, and anyone buried carelessly or mourned too hard were expected to 'walk home'.
Si lëviz
Ndryshon
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.
Inteligjenca
Pak inteligjencë
Pikat e dobëta
  • 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

Kur u shfaq për herë të parë?

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

shënime nga terreni

Çfarë thonë burimet

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

A do t'i shpëtoje me vrap?

Klasa e shpejtësisë sipas mënyrës si e përshkruajnë burimet (ndryshon), jo matje.

Ti, në këmbë rreth 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, me vrap të lehtë rreth 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kodukäija rreth 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Një i rritur në formë që vrapon me të gjitha forcat rreth 24 km/h (15 mph)
Një çiklist i shpejtë rreth 37 km/h (23 mph)

Ushqe hordhinë. Pa reklama, pa gjurmues, paguar nga një person i vetëm. Një bakshish e mban online.Lër një bakshish

E njëjta epokë: 1500 deri në 1899

Ushqe hordhinëLër një bakshish