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Welsh revenant of Hereford

E boetse e bitswa: William Laudun's revenant, Walter Map's Welshman
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE a fapanaLefu le lebe kapa lepato le lebeMehla e Bohareng

Walter Map tells of a dead Welshman who walked nightly near Hereford and summoned his neighbours to death by name. The bishop's prescribed cure of holy water and a cut neck failed, and the haunting ended only when the knight William Laudun pursued the corpse to its grave and beheaded it. The name-calling motif turns up again centuries later in the Greek vrykolakas. Map also records gentler cases settled by a cross on the grave or priestly absolution.12

Di lwantshe
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
1185
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192
Tshimoloho
Medieval English / Welsh borders
United Kingdom
Se e bakang
Lefu le lebe kapa lepato le lebe
Map says the man died 'unchristianly'.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A Welshman who died without a Christian end.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E a fapana
Walks back from his grave into the village each night and calls residents by name.
Bohlale
Bohlale
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • holy water on the body and grave (tried first, and failed)
  • splitting the head from the neck with a sword

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

1

Everyone he named fell ill and died within three days12

2

The English knight William Laudun took the case to Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford12

3

The bishop advised exhuming the body, cutting the neck with a spade and sprinkling holy water12

4

The remedy did not work, and the corpse then called Laudun's own name12

5

Laudun chased it back to the grave and cut off its head himself12

Na o ka e phonyoha ka ho matha?

Sehlopha sa lebelo ho ya ka kamoo mehlodi e e hlalosang kateng (e a fapana), 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)
Welsh revenant of Hereford 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)
Mopalami wa baesekele ya lebelo hoo e ka bang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Mehlodi

  1. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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