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Aufhocker

Gape e bidiwa: Huckop, Huckupp
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE a siana

The Aufhocker is a German revenant that attacks by riding its victims. It drops onto a night traveller's shoulders and becomes heavier and heavier until the bearer is crushed with exhaustion. Its destinations, churchyards and graves, mark it as one of the dead. It is a regional specialist within the wider Wiedergänger family.1

Di lwantshe
Tshimologo
German
Jeremane
Se se e bakang
Ga go a tlhalosiwa le ka motlha
The sources consulted class it among the returning dead without giving a cause.
E tsamaya jang
E a siana
Leaps onto the back of a lone walker at night and has to be carried.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
  • a prayer or formula of banishment
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

The name means roughly 'one who squats on you'1

2

It grows heavier with every step until the victim collapses or dies1

3

Victims are made to carry it to a churchyard wall or a grave1

4

It can take different shapes, and in the Rhineland it could appear as a werewolf1

5

Folklorists stress its bodily weight as proof that it is a revenant and not a ghost1

A o ka e siela kgakala?

Setlhopha sa bonako go ya ka fa metswedi e e tlhalosang ka teng (e a siana), e seng tekanyo.

Wena, o tsamaya mo e ka nnang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o taboga ka iketlo mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho yo mogolo yo o itekanetseng a siana thata mo e ka nnang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Aufhocker mo e ka nnang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele yo o bonako mo e ka nnang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Metswedi

  1. Wiederg%C3%A4nger - Wikipedia

Ntlha nngwe le nngwe mo tsebeng e e tswa mo metsweding e, e kwadilwe ka mafoko a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelele kwa [email protected].

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NachzehrerGerman, 1800WiedergängerGermanFextCzech and central European, 1630

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