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Berwick revenant
Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: Berwick vampire
At Berwick-upon-Tweed a wealthy man's corpse was said to leave its tomb each night and run through the streets with dogs baying behind it. The townspeople feared plague more than the dead man himself, on the theory that a wandering corpse poisons the air. They had it cut up and burned, but the epidemic came regardless. The case is an early example of the link between revenants and contagion that later drove vampire panics.12
Jëkk a bindu
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190sCosaan
Medieval English / Scottish borders
ÀngalteerLan moo ko waral
Seytaane walla rab yu bon
Newburgh attributes the corpse's movements to the working of Satan.Naka ngay doone benn
A rich townsman who was discovered after death to have been a rogue.
Naka lay yëngoo
Dafay daw
Leaves the tomb at night and ranges through the town pursued by a pack of loudly barking dogs, returning before daybreak.Xel
Am na tuuti xel
Fi mu néewe doole
- dismembering the body and burning it
Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
notu gëstu
Li sours yi wax
Ndax mën nga ko raw ci daw?
Gaawaay bi jóge ci ni sours yi ko melale (dafay daw), du natt.
Yow, ci dox lu tollu ci 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Yow, ci daw ndànk lu tollu ci 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Mag bu am doole buy daw lu gaaw lool lu tollu ci 24 km/h (15 mph)
Berwick revenant lu tollu ci 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ku gaaw ci welo lu tollu ci 37 km/h (23 mph)
Sours yi
- William of Newburgh, History, Book 5 - Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
- Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)
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