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Wharram Percy mutilated dead

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Wharram Percy revenants
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniAmaxesha Aphakathi

At the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy in Yorkshire, archaeologists identified human remains that had been beheaded, cut up and burned after death. The 2017 study by Historic England and the University of Southampton concluded that the likeliest explanation was fear of revenants. If so, it is physical evidence from England for the practices that chroniclers such as William of Newburgh describe. It shows ordinary villagers acting on the belief that corpses could rise.12

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1100
Bones dated to the 11th-14th centuries; analysed in a study published in 2017
Imvelaphi
Medieval English
IUnited Kingdom
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ayizange icaciswe
Why these individuals were singled out is not known.
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • decapitation
  • dismemberment
  • burning
  • breaking the long bones after death

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Ihlabathi lamanduloAmaxesha Aphakathi1500 ukuya ku-18991900 ukuya ku-19671968 ukuya ku-19992000 ukuya ku-20092010 ukuza kuthi ga namhlanje1100

Bones dated to the 11th-14th centuries; analysed in a study published in 2017

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Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

137 broken bones from at least ten people, including two women and three children, were found in pits away from the churchyard12

2

Knife marks cluster around the head and neck, not where a butcher would cut for meat12

3

Isotope analysis of the teeth showed the dead had grown up locally, ruling out strangers12

4

The researchers, Simon Mays and Alistair Pike, judged an attempt to stop corpses walking the best fit for the evidence12

5

Famine cannibalism remains an alternative that has not been excluded12

6

The bones were excavated in 1963 and lay unstudied for decades12

Imithombo

  1. Medieval villagers warded off 'zombies' by burning and mutilating human remains, study finds - ScienceAlert
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

AbhartachIrish, 1870Revenant (medieval England)Medieval English, 1100Berwick revenantMedieval English / Scottish borders, 1198Buckinghamshire revenantMedieval English, 1198Byland Abbey revenantsMedieval English, 1400Drakelow revenantsMedieval English, 1090

Ixesha elinye: Amaxesha Aphakathi

DraugrNorse, 1250VetalaHindu (Indian), 1070GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300UpiórSlavic, 1100AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200HaugbúiNorse, 1250
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