
Faele Nom. 424 ya 446
Gjenganger
Gape e bidiwa: genganger, gengångare, attergangar, gjenferd, genfærd
The gjenganger is the walking dead of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish folk belief and the direct heir of the saga draugr. Early accounts make it a solid, violent corpse that torments its own family; later ones turn it into a carrier of sickness whose pinch leaves a mark that spreads to the heart. Burial customs across Scandinavia were designed to keep it in the grave. Its slow change from corpse to ghost tracks the wider European retreat of belief in the bodily dead.12
Tshimologo
Scandinavian
Norway, Denmark, SwideneSe se e bakang
Loso kgotsa phitlho e e sa siamang
A violent or unfinished death leaves the person unable to rest.O fetoga yone jang
Murder victims, murderers, suicides and people who left something undone were expected to return.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
- the sign of the cross painted or carved on the house
- Christian prayers and crucifixes
- carrying the coffin three times round the church before burial
dikwalo tsa patlisiso
Se metswedi e se buang
Metswedi
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