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Zalozhnye pokoiniki

又稱: заложные покойники, unclean dead, zalozhny dead

民間傳說與神話不死生物不得好死或下葬不當

Zalozhnye pokoiniki is the ethnographic term for the East Slavic 'unclean dead', those whose manner of death bars them from rest. They were not given normal burial, and in times of drought or plague villagers dug up such bodies and moved or drowned them, a practice churchmen denounced for centuries. The category underlies most Russian and Ukrainian undead, including the upyr and the rusalka. It is a clear statement of the idea, common to zombie folklore worldwide, that a bad death produces a dangerous corpse.1

來對戰

起源

East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)

俄羅斯, 烏克蘭, 白俄羅斯

成因

不得好死或下葬不當

People who die before their time or outside the Church cannot pass on, and the earth is said to refuse their bodies.

如何變成它

Suicides, the drowned, the murdered, drunkards, unbaptised children, sorcerers and witches.

弱點

burial away from the community: at crossroads, field boundaries, in forests, swamps or ravines
covering the grave with stones and branches
exhuming the body and throwing it into a swamp to end a drought

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