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Nachzehrer

Auch bekannt als: Nachtzehrer, shroud eater
Folklore und MythenUntotBewegt sich kaumEin schlechter Tod oder ein schlechtes Begräbnis1500 bis 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

Gegen ihn kämpfen
Erstmals belegt
1800
The word dates from the 19th century; the belief is several centuries older
Herkunft
German
Deutschland, Polen
Was es auslöst
Ein schlechter Tod oder ein schlechtes Begräbnis
Folk explanations blame mistakes at burial, such as giving the dead some of the living's own belongings.
Wie man einer wird
Burying a person with grave goods taken from the living, or with their name still on the burial clothes, was thought to risk it.
Wie er sich bewegt
Bewegt sich kaum
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.
Intelligenz
Etwas Intelligenz

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

AntikeMittelalter1500 bis 18991900 bis 19671968 bis 19992000 bis 20092010 bis heute1800

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

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

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

Quellen

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

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