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Kirkonväki

Tinatawag ding: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset

Kirkonväki is the Finnish name for the dead as a body, the population of the churchyard acting together. Finnish legend gives them corporeal form, as a congregation of decaying corpses that fills the church at night and mauls any living intruder, though everyday belief treated them more as an invisible, foul-smelling force. They enforced respect for graves and proper burial and could be weaponised by cunning folk. They are the closest thing in Finnish tradition to a horde of the walking dead.1

Labanan ito
Unang naitala
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Pinagmulan
Finnish
Finland
Ano ang sanhi
Iba pa
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Paano ka magiging isa
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Paano ito gumagalaw
Nag-iiba
In legends they gather in the church at night as a solid crowd; in personal accounts they pass as a swarm of small figures in the air.
Talino
May kaunting talino
Mga kahinaan
  • precautions when crossing churchyard boundaries
  • leaving something behind: in one legend a man escapes by dropping his fur coat on the church threshold, and the dead tear the coat apart

Kailan ito unang lumitaw?

Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s

mga tala sa field

Ano ang sabi ng mga pinagmulan

1

The word means 'churchyard folk', but väki also carries an older sense of 'force' or 'power'1

2

In legends they look like ordinary people or like rotting corpses and skeletons1

3

A migratory legend tells of the dead holding their own Christmas service and attacking a living person who walks in1

4

They reek of death; seers can see them, others only smell them1

5

Churchyard soil, bones or splinters of grave markers could be used to 'send' them against an enemy or set them on a thief1

6

Kaarina Koski's study draws on more than 2,000 records in the Finnish Literature Society's archives, richest in Ostrobothnia1

Kaya mo bang takasan ito?

Klase ng bilis ayon sa paglalarawan ng mga pinagmulan (nag-iiba), hindi sukat.

Ikaw, naglalakad mga 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ikaw, nagjo-jogging mga 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki mga 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Isang fit na adultong nagsi-sprint mga 24 km/h (15 mph)
Isang mabilis na siklista mga 37 km/h (23 mph)

Mga pinagmulan

  1. Kaarina Koski, 'Conceptual Analysis and Variation in Belief Tradition: A Case of Death-Related Beings', Folklore 38 (2008)

Ang bawat datos sa pahinang ito ay galing sa mga pinagmulang ito, isinulat sa sarili naming salita. May nakitang mali? Sabihin sa amin sa [email protected].

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Parehong panahon: 1500 hanggang 1899

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