A since the 13th Century, mainly in Central Europe, widespread belief in a turbulent and damaging to the dead of the "Nachzehrer" or "smacking dead." Nachzehrer and smacking dead are commonly described as the buried corpses, which according to folklore, its shroud or shroud, occasionally also eat parts of her own body for the disease and illness of former village neighbors, friends and to bring relatives. The parties to Nachzehrern people are first ill, until they have withdrawn from the undead by his meal gradually all life force and they finally die. Compared to other undead, and in particular also the vampire, are characterized Nachzehrer and Smoot finished dead mainly because of that they stay during the process of trial in the grave and kill their victims without direct physical contact over a larger spatial distance. Even the Nachzehrer pursued in his "not die" no overarching goals, such as divine salvation, but is limited in his activities alone, "others die to make. "
The actual cause led to the emergence of the phenomenon of smacking Nachzehrer or dead is very spectacular and easy to explain today. As the term "Smoot finished dead" suggests, the belief goes to such a form of "undead-ness" back to the misinterpretation of a series of sounds that are formed during the decomposition process. The dead man was not buried deep enough, the bubbling and gurgling sounds to be heard beyond the grave and quickly appropriate (modern) attempts to explain at hand. raged while still plague or other epidemic in Nachzehrer offered a suitable culprit. In conclusion, we mention that the undead in the form of smacking Nachzehrer or dead, of course, were possible only in areas where the burial was completed.
Sources:
Kreuter, Peter Mario: The vampire belief in Southeastern Europe. Studies on the genesis, significance and function. Romania and the Balkans. Berlin 2001.
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