
Ifayile No. 015 kwa-446
Welsh revenant of Hereford
Ikwabizwa ngokuba: William Laudun's revenant, Walter Map's Welshman
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIyahlukaUkufa okubi okanye ukungcwatywa kakubiAmaxesha Aphakathi
Walter Map tells of a dead Welshman who walked nightly near Hereford and summoned his neighbours to death by name. The bishop's prescribed cure of holy water and a cut neck failed, and the haunting ended only when the knight William Laudun pursued the corpse to its grave and beheaded it. The name-calling motif turns up again centuries later in the Greek vrykolakas. Map also records gentler cases settled by a cross on the grave or priestly absolution.12
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1185
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192Imvelaphi
Medieval English / Welsh borders
IUnited KingdomOko kuyibangelayo
Ukufa okubi okanye ukungcwatywa kakubi
Map says the man died 'unchristianly'.Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A Welshman who died without a Christian end.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyahluka
Walks back from his grave into the village each night and calls residents by name.Ubukrelekrele
Ikrelekrele
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
- holy water on the body and grave (tried first, and failed)
- splitting the head from the neck with a sword
Yavela nini okokuqala?
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192
amanqaku ophando
Oko kuthethwa yimithombo
Ungayigqitha ngokubaleka?
Udidi lwesantya ngokwendlela imithombo eyichaza ngayo (iyahluka), asingomlinganiselo.
Wena, uhamba malunga ne-5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, ujoga malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Welsh revenant of Hereford malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Umntu omdala osempilweni ebaleka ngamandla malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Umkhweli webhayisikile okhawulezayo malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)
Imithombo
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