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Kirkonväki

又稱: kirkkomaanväki, kalmanväki, churchyard folk, manalaiset

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

來對戰
最早紀錄
1551
Related terms occur in Finnish sources from Mikael Agricola (1551) onward; most archive records date from the late 19th century to the 1960s
起源
Finnish
芬蘭
成因
其他
The collective dead of a churchyard, active as a crowd around the church and around any unburied corpse.
如何變成它
The dead buried in the parish churchyard.
移動方式
不一定
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.
智力
有些智力
弱點
  • 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

它最早出現在什麼時候?

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

田野筆記

資料來源怎麼說

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

你跑得贏它嗎?

速度等級依據資料來源的描述(不一定),不是實際測量。

你,走路 大約5公里/小時
你,慢跑 大約10公里/小時
Kirkonväki 大約10公里/小時
全力衝刺的健康成人 大約24公里/小時
騎得飛快的單車騎士 大約37公里/小時

資料來源

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

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