GHOSTS In Norse mythology
Grímr the Calvo has just died, their families rush to the earliest rituals, such as cutting hair and nails of the deceased, and is not purely for aesthetic at a funeral, but to (literally), delaying the end of humanity and the gods themselves in the Ragnarok, and that the fallen of Hel, the way to Asgard sailed on ships made of nails of the deceased, with sails made woven with human hair. Yet, despite what may seem far fetched that the Icelandic funeral rite, well described in the saga of Egil Skallagrimsson whereby, broke the wall of the house to remove the dead, and was sealed after, coming to give a long walk through the streets of the village, so that, literally, the dead do not find his way back home and can not return to do evil to his family, the Norse were taking great pains to avoid the "returnees" . And what has been described is only the beginning of rites certainly disturbing.
Another custom was to write palindromes in the tombs, or buried with the dead, containers full of pebbles, in the first case, it was the "returned" to waste their time in decoding a word without first or end, in the second, that the dead spend the night counting the pebbles.
And, really worried Norse avoid the afterlife, the death of a Viking, was not limited only to physical death and subsequent burial A late, had to be so in every way whether physical, legal and legally . There has to be fringe or any matter that could force the return of the deceased to literally have to put an end to what was not done properly. And with all these precautions, despite everything, sometimes, the dead returned.
Night of the Living Dead:
ancient Germanic peoples and bequeathed its fears of the Romans, spoke of Natchwolk or Natchvölk, the night crawlers, ghosts of deceased , only came out at night to torment the living.
Among the Nordic countries, there are certain types of returns, which could be in the category of "zombies", ie undead, wandering without rest, as corrupt corporeal. Generally, these spectra are known as Draugr, a returnee who, for whatever reason haunts the living, roam freely at night, often extremely strong, able to destroy the bones of a man to death, although they often appear on through a thick fog, so the Norse are careful not to go out of populated areas at night as well.
Haugbui The Norwegians are somewhat less dangerous, since they are limited to slow and heavy laze around their graves, but can be equally violent.
The Beangr Rakke usually appear near rivers or rivulets, are "laundry zombie" or sometimes, spectral figures who engage in the river to clean the bloody clothes of their victims, no one remembers because they meet with this curse, but will not be free until someone knows the reason for his sentence and will be solved.
Rati The spectra are those who have died to witness the Wild Hunt of Odin, some have already joined zombie bodies, hunting wild, others are ghosts that have a time he concluded his last earthly affairs, before joining the march, in the next step of the Wild Hunt.
Nithgengar The Danish are sometimes displayed spectra that his murderer, others not rest until zombies kill whoever killed them.
The Wergildgengr popular in Danegeld, is created halfway between English customs, and the myth outlined above. A curious written English, tells the execution of Danish prisoners, following the laws of English law at the time, according to which each had a wergild noble English, that is, a "blood price" for pirates literal Danes, they will not pay more than their lives, the murder of English. The Danes took the rematch, ensuring its counterpart in bloody vengeance for his fallen, soon, the myth of the "returned" to seek revenge for his death at the hands of the enemy, became famous on both sides ...
Vampires and other ghosts:
head Cut dead with his own sword funeral, impaled with a stake of hawthorn, bury him upside down, burn and scatter his ashes at sea, chained to his grave, placed a stone rune on his chest ... too many "nuisance" to conjure a kind of creatures that is, never existed as such in the northern myths, I mean, of course, vampires.
The Gengar or genganger spectra are messengers, sometimes returning to demand repair a fault, others to "repair" their way, then, are terrible creatures, may, from night to night drainage blood on their victims, to simply carve like wild beasts.
The Gastr, are ghosts of the roads, sometimes mere appearances on many other occasions, vampires attack victims, which passed in turn to be like them, or worse ... because die without possibility of being avenged, How do you take revenge for the dead?.
Skott The female ghosts, sometimes well-intentioned, with people who are supposed to protect for some reason (usually family), but at the same time, relentless and cruel, with their perceived enemies, who head off to drink his blood.
The Mori, male ghosts, halfway between the zombie and the vampire. May appear as ghosts to haunt the living, or as a hybrid of zombie and vampire, who can attack from parts of cattle to people.
Then there are other kinds of vampires, which feed on psychic energy of the living, such as the Balearic (very popular with the Swedes), a kind of nightmare spectra, which attack the dormant, suffocating , and cause a fever of extreme weakness. In this aspect, much like the Mara, spectra nightmare that feed off the energy of the sleeper, of whom was born the term "Nightmare" (nightmare), generally, this type of spectral creatures, women tend to look .
Even the popular Flylgia of Norse mythology, a kind of tutelary guardians can sometimes show their more aggressive side to defend the clan or his protege. As Hugr, (souls of the world, spirits of the community group), which sometimes act violently, appearing in spectral form to torment those who oppose his proteges, such spectra can bite (bitter) , ie an image appear as "palpable" of remorse or memory of a failure, until it is repaired, or choose to ride (rida), ie, cause discomfort and pain to people, more and more intensely until they achieve their goal.
Other spectra fearsome
Among the most feared creatures, we can highlight the Utburdir , spectra of rejected children at birth, or killed for any reason unfairly, they say, that the goddess Holda supports with all his power these little ghosts, who despite all his innocent appearance may be incredibly powerful and cruel in their revenge,
Kong The Eller usually appear in the figure of an ancestor, to foreshadow the imminent death of the person to witness his appearance, which will gradually lose its life force until he died.
The Volga are spectra in the service of a dark wizard, maybe a magician or dark rune magic practitioner, usually convened from a dead bone, and are fully bound to the will of who created, there is only one way get rid of them, pronouncing the name of the deceased owner of the bone, or directly, killing the necromancer.
Sceadugengan are spectra Swedes are known as "living in the shadows" can have any appearance at will. It is said that some are so old that no one knows who created them, which is missing must be repaired to reconcile. Often, they are offered food and offerings in some blots on certain winter dates to try to appease their anger.
The spirit of the Wolf:
They have always been afraid, and have been known by many different names throughout the Germanic races and Nordic Garwall or Garolfo between the Normans, Werewolf among the Saxons, Warlo Wölfe for the Germans, Garwulf, Garou, Lupin among the Gauls, Waerulf among Danish Warulf for the Swedes. We refer to the werewolves.
Wolves are creatures with enormous magical power, is among the Nordic states, there are 3 months of meat (in this stage are terrible), another 3 of dust and carrion, and other 3 of air (winter) and only eat the left side of the animals they kill. But we're talking two-legged wolves!.
However, the ghostly and spectral creatures, "as the saga of Egil, the fear is very special to Hamrammr, which can change shape, perhaps Grímr himself was one of them, a werewolf, in the strictest meaning of the word, or perhaps his evil was more of another nature, like the Rammaukin , those who carry the beast within, capable of staying quiet years, and a bad day, awaken the beast within, and create a slaughter. Or maybe a Eigi Einharmr of which we have little information, perhaps a being who holds within himself many personalities boils from the fury of a wolf, an insane murderer.
equally to be feared Manegarm, a term defined equally, Garm of the goddess Hel, who devour "the Moon (the moon is male between the Nordic countries), at the end of days as a race of beastmen, who attacked the villages of the full moon. Werewolves in most brutal of his conceptions.
could be no less brutal conception of Vargrgengar, spectrum vermin. Specializing in the abduction of young children to eat them with delight. One of the worst nightmares for Danish children.
not missing the Klaanulf (Finland), literally, wolf clan, led by a shepherd of wolves, ie a human being, sometimes with lupine abilities, others simply power over the beasts, blindly obey him and acknowledge him as a natural leader and head of the clan.
Finally, there are the Vaerulf Rida, brokers night, victims of a curse that transforms them into wolves at night, and condemns them to wander through the woods, until someone breaks the spell and can be done, since shedding their blood in a wound, to offer his own blood as a tribute to the wolf so it will not have to kill an animal (among many other ways to break the spell.)
Undoubtedly, I am left alone with a small part of the "fears" of the Norse, investigate the many mythological beasts that could be dangerous among the inhabitants of forests and rivers, will open question for another article.
But see the great similarity of the werewolves of the Norse myths, with the conceptions of myth in Galicia ...
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