Finally the hero Grettir kills the Revenant, but only at the cost of being cursed himself. As in the first story, the Revenant is the result of an external contagion that is never identified: A final Scandinavian tale comes from Eyrbyggja Saga , where a portentous moon begins a chain of deaths that haunt an Icelandic community over the Christmas period:. At the wake of Thorgunna, Thorir Wooden-Leg explains the purpose of the Moon of Weird… and is soon killed by the Revenant of a shepherd possessed by some malign force linked to the dread moon.
Next, things become even stranger: When the dead seem to be intent on staying for Christmas there is little the people can do: Unlike Thorall and the Icelandic heroes, Snawbal seems equipped with some knowledge of Christian protection that verges on Clerical necromancy. In this case, Snawbal not only achieves absolution for the spirit — and without having such a huge number of masses spoken — but performs a spell that protects him from the Revenant, who agrees to lift the curse, but warns him against further consorting with spirits due to the things that others are starting to say of him.
Similar physical Revenants can be seen in Herefordshire, in the stories of Walter Map. I could go on: From the Medieval era into the Early Modern, Ghosts are part of an interesting Venn diagram between the dead, demons and fairies. We see the fairy end of the spectrum in the very Northern-influenced case of Katherine Fordyce from the Orkneys. At first, the captive Katherine is seen standing near a fairy mound. By the next time her neighbour dreams of her, things have changed: Katherine is imprisoned in a stone seat, held down by an iron bar across her knees, nursing a babe for the fairies.
This time she asks not for the child to keep, but that it is named after her, again promising prosperity until the child grows old enough to marry, remarking that she could be free if someone would say the name of God in her presence. We see a similar situation in the trial of Bessie Dunlop: But did he get the idea for this historic legislation from beyond the grave?
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