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Kirkonväki

A tún ń pè é ní: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset
Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu àti àròsọÒkúÓ yàtọ̀1500 sí 1899

Kirkonväki is the Finnish name for the dead as a body, the population of the churchyard acting together. Finnish legend gives them corporeal form, as a congregation of decaying corpses that fills the church at night and mauls any living intruder, though everyday belief treated them more as an invisible, foul-smelling force. They enforced respect for graves and proper burial and could be weaponised by cunning folk. They are the closest thing in Finnish tradition to a horde of the walking dead.1

Bá a jà
Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tí a kọ sílẹ̀
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
Orírun
Finnish
Finland
Ohun tó fà á
Òmíràn
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
Bí ó ṣe ń rìn
Ó yàtọ̀
In legends they gather in the church at night as a solid crowd; in personal accounts they pass as a swarm of small figures in the air.
Làákàyè
Làákàyè díẹ̀
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • precautions when crossing churchyard boundaries
  • leaving something behind: in one legend a man escapes by dropping his fur coat on the church threshold, and the dead tear the coat apart

Ìgbà wo ló kọ́kọ́ farahàn?

Ayé àtijọ́Sáà Àárín1500 sí 18991900 sí 19671968 sí 19992000 sí 20092010 títí di òní1551

Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s

àkọsílẹ̀ pápá

Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

1

The word means 'churchyard folk', but väki also carries an older sense of 'force' or 'power'1

2

In legends they look like ordinary people or like rotting corpses and skeletons1

3

A migratory legend tells of the dead holding their own Christmas service and attacking a living person who walks in1

4

They reek of death; seers can see them, others only smell them1

5

Churchyard soil, bones or splinters of grave markers could be used to 'send' them against an enemy or set them on a thief1

6

Kaarina Koski's study draws on more than 2,000 records in the Finnish Literature Society's archives, richest in Ostrobothnia1

Ṣé o lè sá fún un?

Ẹ̀ka ìyára láti bí àwọn orísun ṣe ṣàpèjúwe rẹ̀ (ó yàtọ̀), kì í ṣe ìwọ̀n.

Ìwọ, ní rírìn nǹkan bí 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ìwọ, ní eré òwúrọ̀ nǹkan bí 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Kirkonväki nǹkan bí 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Àgbàlagbà alágbára tó ń sáré nǹkan bí 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ẹni tó ń gun kẹ̀kẹ́ lákọ̀ọ́kọ̀ nǹkan bí 37 km/h (23 mph)

Àwọn orísun

  1. Kaarina Koski, 'Conceptual Analysis and Variation in Belief Tradition: A Case of Death-Related Beings', Folklore 38 (2008)

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Sáà kan náà: 1500 sí 1899

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