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Hundeprest of Melrose

E boetse e bitswa: the Dog-Priest, Melrose Abbey revenant
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE a fapanaLefu le lebe kapa lepato le lebeMehla e Bohareng

The Hundeprest is the walking dead priest of Melrose, recorded by William of Newburgh. Buried in the monastery, he rose at night and terrified his former mistress until a party of four undertook to watch the grave. One of them drove an axe into the corpse when it charged him, and at dawn the wounded, bleeding body was exhumed, burned and its ashes scattered. The story is unusual for showing a revenant physically injured in a fight.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
Lefu le lebe kapa lepato le lebe
A worldly priest who neglected his calling in life cannot rest in the monastery where he was buried.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A chaplain so devoted to hunting that he was nicknamed 'Hundeprest', the dog-priest.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E a fapana
Rises at night; the sanctity of the monks keeps him from doing harm inside the abbey, so he roams outside and groans around a noblewoman's bedchamber.
Bohlale
Bohlale bo itseng
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • an axe blow from one of the men watching his grave
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes

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

He had been chaplain to a noble lady and haunted her after death12

2

Two friars and two strong young men kept an armed vigil at the grave12

3

When three went off to warm themselves, the corpse attacked the one left alone12

4

Wounded, it fled back to a tomb that opened to receive it and closed again12

5

In the morning the body was dug up with the axe wound in it and the grave full of blood12

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)
Hundeprest of Melrose 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. 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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