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Welsh revenant of Hereford

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: William Laudun's revenant, Walter Map's Welshman
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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

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1185
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192
Imvelaphi
Medieval English / Welsh borders
IUnited Kingdom
Oko 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
amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

Everyone he named fell ill and died within three days12

2

The English knight William Laudun took the case to Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford12

3

The bishop advised exhuming the body, cutting the neck with a spade and sprinkling holy water12

4

The remedy did not work, and the corpse then called Laudun's own name12

5

Laudun chased it back to the grave and cut off its head himself12

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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

  1. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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