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Berwick revenant

E boetse e bitswa: Berwick vampire
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE a mathaBademona kapa meya e mebeMehla e Bohareng

At Berwick-upon-Tweed a wealthy man's corpse was said to leave its tomb each night and run through the streets with dogs baying behind it. The townspeople feared plague more than the dead man himself, on the theory that a wandering corpse poisons the air. They had it cut up and burned, but the epidemic came regardless. The case is an early example of the link between revenants and contagion that later drove vampire panics.12

Di lwantshe
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Tshimoloho
Medieval English / Scottish borders
United Kingdom
Se e bakang
Bademona kapa meya e mebe
Newburgh attributes the corpse's movements to the working of Satan.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A rich townsman who was discovered after death to have been a rogue.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E a matha
Leaves the tomb at night and ranges through the town pursued by a pack of loudly barking dogs, returning before daybreak.
Bohlale
Bohlale bo itseng
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • dismembering the body and burning it

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

1

No one dared be out of doors after dusk12

2

The town's leaders feared the corpse would breed disease in the air12

3

Ten young men were hired to exhume it, cut it in pieces and burn it12

4

The monster was reported to have said there would be no peace until it was burned12

5

A pestilence killed much of the population anyway12

Na o ka e phonyoha ka ho matha?

Sehlopha sa lebelo ho ya ka kamoo mehlodi e e hlalosang kateng (e a matha), eseng tekanyo.

Wena, o tsamaya hoo e ka bang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o matha butle hoo e ka bang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho e moholo ya matla a mathang ka lebelo le leholo hoo e ka bang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Berwick revenant hoo e ka bang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele ya lebelo hoo e ka bang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Mehlodi

  1. William of Newburgh, History, Book 5 - Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
  2. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)

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