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Kukudh

Kallas även: kukudhi, kukuvriq, karkanxholl
Folktro och myterOdöd

The kukudh is an Albanian revenant with two faces: the undead miser who will not leave his house, and a demon of epidemic disease. Nobody would spend a night in a dead miser's home for fear of it. The double meaning, corpse and plague at once, is the same association found in Greek, Slavic and English revenant lore. The name is probably connected with an Albanian word for lamenting.1

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Ursprung
Albanian
Albanien
Vad som orsakar det
Övrigt
The soul of a miser cannot leave his property; in another tradition it is a lugat that was not burned in time.
Hur man blir en
A miser dies and stays on to guard his house.
Svaga punkter
  • strangling it with a noose made of vine
fältanteckningar

Vad källorna säger

1

Pictured in some districts as a short, stocky man with a goat's tail1

2

Ordinary weapons do not harm it1

3

Only a brave boy can defeat it, and he is rewarded as its heir1

4

In southern Albania the same name is given to a blind female plague demon1

5

The related karkanxholl is a corpse that roams in January loaded with chains and breathing out death1

Källor

  1. Kukudh - Wikipedia

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