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Uppvakningur

又称: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead

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.1 2

和它战斗

起源

Icelandic

冰岛

成因是什么

巫术

A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.

你如何变成它

A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.

它如何移动

不定

Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.

智力

有点智力

弱点

'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

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