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Gjenganger

E boetse e bitswa: genganger, gengångare, attergangar, gjenferd, genfærd
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengLefu le lebe kapa lepato le lebe

The gjenganger is the walking dead of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish folk belief and the direct heir of the saga draugr. Early accounts make it a solid, violent corpse that torments its own family; later ones turn it into a carrier of sickness whose pinch leaves a mark that spreads to the heart. Burial customs across Scandinavia were designed to keep it in the grave. Its slow change from corpse to ghost tracks the wider European retreat of belief in the bodily dead.12

Di lwantshe
Tshimoloho
Scandinavian
Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Se e bakang
Lefu le lebe kapa lepato le lebe
A violent or unfinished death leaves the person unable to rest.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
Murder victims, murderers, suicides and people who left something undone were expected to return.
Bohlale
Bohlale bo itseng
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • the sign of the cross painted or carved on the house
  • Christian prayers and crucifixes
  • carrying the coffin three times round the church before burial
dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

1

The name means 'again-walker'; German Wiedergänger is the same idea12

2

In Scandinavian tradition it is wholly physical, with no spectral qualities12

3

Later lore made it a spreader of disease through the dødningeknip, the 'dead man's pinch', inflicted on sleepers12

4

Cairns called varp marked death sites, and travellers added a stone or twig in passing12

5

In modern usage it has faded into an ordinary ghost12

Mehlodi

  1. Gjenganger - Wikipedia
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

Ntlha e nngwe le e nngwe leqepheng lena e tswa mehloding ena, e ngotswe ka mantswe a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelle ho [email protected].

Fepa letshwele. Ha ho dipapatso, ha ho disebedisi tsa ho latela, e lefellwa ke motho a le mong. Tjhelete ya teboho e e boloka inthaneteng.Fana ka tjhelete ya teboho

Ditshomo tsa dinaha tseo

DraugrNorse, 1250AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / GermanicKárr the OldNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300Sea draugNorwegian, 1741

Tse ding tse kang ena

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Fepa letshweleFana ka tjhelete ya teboho