Liigu sisu juurde

Zombie Wiki / Kõik zombid / Folkloor ja müüdid

Illustration of Vrykolakas — Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.

Toimik nr 039 / 446

Vrykolakas

Tuntud ka kui: βρυκόλακας, vourkolakas, vorvolakas, katakhanas

Folkloor ja müüdidElavsurnuNeedus1500–1899

The vrykolakas is the Greek undead: an undecayed, bloated corpse that walks out of its grave to plague its village. Seventeenth-century churchmen and travellers described islanders exhuming and burning suspect bodies, and Tournefort's eyewitness account of such a case on Mykonos became famous across Europe. Greek and Ottoman-era graves with corpses nailed or weighted down show how old and how practical the fear was. Its contagious, door-to-door spread makes it one of the closest folkloric relatives of the modern zombie plague.1 2

Esimene kirjalik mainimine

1645

Described by Leo Allatius in 1645; Tournefort witnessed a 'slaying' on Mykonos in 1701

Päritolu

Greek

Kreeka, Küpros

Mis seda põhjustab

Needus

Greek tradition blames excommunication above all, along with grave sin, a parent's curse, burial in unconsecrated ground or an animal jumping over the corpse.

Kuidas selleks saadakse

Dying excommunicate or cursed; anyone who answers its first knock dies within days and becomes one too.

Intelligentsus

Natuke intelligentsi

Nõrgad kohad

cremation
exorcism by a priest
impaling, beheading or cutting up the corpse
opening the grave on a Saturday, when it is at rest
never answering a door on the first knock

Millal see esimest korda ilmus?

Antiikmaailm Keskaeg 1500–1899 1900–1967 1968–1999 2000–2009 2010 tänapäevani

1645

Described by Leo Allatius in 1645; Tournefort witnessed a 'slaying' on Mykonos in 1701

välimärkmed

Mida allikad ütlevad

1

The body does not decay but swells taut like a drum and turns ruddy1 2

2

The name is borrowed from a Slavic word that originally meant werewolf1 2

3

It crushes or suffocates sleepers by sitting on them1 2

4

Some accounts make it an eater of flesh, especially human livers, rather than a blood-drinker1 2

5

During the famine of 1941-42 some Greek families beheaded relatives who had to be buried outside cemeteries, to stop them rising1 2

Allikad

Iga fakt sellel lehel pärineb nendest allikatest ja on kirjutatud meie enda sõnadega. Märkasid vea? Kirjuta aadressil [email protected].

Toida hordi. Ei mingit reklaami, ei jälgijaid, maksab üks inimene. Jootraha hoiab lehe võrgus.Jäta jootraha

Folkloor samadelt aladelt

Erichtho's reanimated soldierRoman (literary), 61

PhilinnionAncient Greek, 150

The corpse of ThelyphronRoman (literary), 170

Vrykolakas of MykonosGreek, 1701

BouplagosAncient Greek / Roman, 150

PolykritosAncient Greek, 150

Sama ajastu: 1500–1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

StrigoiRomanian, 1714

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725

AbhartachIrish, 1870

Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732

Toida hordiJäta jootraha