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Nachzehrer

També anomenat: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater
Folklore i miteMort viuGairebé no es mouUna mala mort o un mal enterramentDe 1500 a 1899

The Nachzehrer is the German shroud-eater, a corpse that kills without getting up. By chewing its grave clothes it was thought to drag its surviving relatives after it one by one, by malice or simply from wanting company. The belief gave communities a reason to open graves during outbreaks of disease and helped shape learned debate about the 'masticating dead' in the 18th century. It represents the stationary end of the revenant spectrum, where the corpse is dangerous but does not walk.12

Lluita-hi
Primer registre
1800
The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older
Origen
German
Alemanya, Polònia
Què el causa
Una mala mort o un mal enterrament
Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.
Com et converteixes en un
Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.
Com es mou
Gairebé no es mou
It need not leave the grave at all: lying there, it chews its shroud and draws the life out of its kin at a distance.
Intel·ligència
Una mica d'intel·ligència

Quan va aparèixer per primer cop?

Món anticEdat mitjanaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 a avui1800

The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older

notes de camp

Què diuen les fonts

1

The name means roughly 'after-devourer'12

2

It gnaws its own shroud and clothing, which was treated as the commonest sign12

3

Other signs on exhumation: open eyes or mouth, red lips, a soft body, a thumb clasped in the opposite hand12

4

Often, though not always, blamed for epidemics12

5

Belief centred on northern Germany, with reports from Silesia and Bavaria12

6

Michael Ranft devoted a 1734 treatise to the 'chewing and smacking of the dead in their graves'12

Fonts

  1. Nachzehrer - Wikipedia
  2. Wiederg%C3%A4nger - Wikipedia

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