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Illustration of Uppvakningur
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Ifayile No. 441 kwa-446

Uppvakningur

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIyahlukaUbugqwirha

The uppvakningur is the Icelandic corpse raised by sorcery, as opposed to the dead who walk for their own reasons. The magician has to overpower the body as it climbs from the grave, after which it obeys orders and can be sent to harm or kill an enemy. An accusation of raising a dead man lay behind the first burning for sorcery in Iceland. As a corpse with no will of its own working for a living master, it is the nearest European equivalent of the Haitian zombi.12

Yiphose edabini
Imvelaphi
Icelandic
IIceland
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ubugqwirha
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyahluka
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • 'singing it down' with the right verses
  • cutting off the head and burning the body
  • throwing a ball of yarn into the open grave and holding the thread until it swears not to return
amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

Distinguished from the afturganga, who comes back of its own will12

2

Once beaten, the corpse asks what its master wants done12

3

A raised corpse dispatched to kill is called a sending12

4

Jón Rögnvaldsson, the first man burned for sorcery in Iceland, was accused of raising a dead man and sending him against a neighbour's farm12

5

Such dead wear out over time; one is described walking on its knees after its feet had rotted away12

6

Folklorist Björk Bjarnadóttir compares Icelandic ghosts to zombies because they are solid12

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)
Uppvakningur 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. We asked a folklorist for all the spooky details - The Reykjavík Grapevine
  2. Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft

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Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

DraugrNorse, 1250GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200Deacon of MyrkáIcelandic, 1860HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / Germanic

Ezinye ezifana nale

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Yondla umkhosiShiya ithiphu