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Berwick revenant

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Berwick vampire
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIyabalekaIidemoni okanye imimoya emdakaAmaxesha Aphakathi

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

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Imvelaphi
Medieval English / Scottish borders
IUnited Kingdom
Oko kuyibangelayo
Iidemoni okanye imimoya emdaka
Newburgh attributes the corpse's movements to the working of Satan.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A rich townsman who was discovered after death to have been a rogue.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyabaleka
Leaves the tomb at night and ranges through the town pursued by a pack of loudly barking dogs, returning before daybreak.
Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • dismembering the body and burning it

Yavela nini okokuqala?

William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s

amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

No one dared be out of doors after dusk12

2

The town's leaders feared the corpse would breed disease in the air12

3

Ten young men were hired to exhume it, cut it in pieces and burn it12

4

The monster was reported to have said there would be no peace until it was burned12

5

A pestilence killed much of the population anyway12

Ungayigqitha ngokubaleka?

Udidi lwesantya ngokwendlela imithombo eyichaza ngayo (iyabaleka), asingomlinganiselo.

Wena, uhamba malunga ne-5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, ujoga malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Umntu omdala osempilweni ebaleka ngamandla malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Berwick revenant malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Umkhweli webhayisikile okhawulezayo malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)

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Ixesha elinye: Amaxesha Aphakathi

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