Gonger
In popular belief on the North Frisian islands of Sylt and Amrum, a kind of poltergeist was called Gonger (from Wieder gänger ) .
According to stories, people who have "innocently murdered" or who have moved foundations or plowed or devastated land find no peace in the grave. Likewise, blasphemers, suicides, and people who have cursed themselves return as gongers.
When a sailor dies at sea, he returns as a gonger to deliver the news of his death. To do this, he gets out of the sea at night in the clothes he was wearing at the time of death and visits the house of his descendants. Here he turns off the light, lies down on the blanket of a sleeper and leaves a trail of salt water. He does this until people remember him and his death.
In the 1930s, Hugo Wolfgang Philipp processed faith in his play The Gonger Comes . In 2008 the television film Gonger - The Evil Never Forgets .
literature
- Karl Müllenhoff (editor): Legends, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg , 1845. Chapter CCLI, The Gongers .
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Mensing: Schleswig-Holstein dictionary - people's edition . Published by K. Wachholtz, 1927, p. 424, entry on Gonger
- ^ A b Karl Müllenhoff (editor): Legends, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg , 1845, pp. 183-184.
- ↑ Gonger - Evil never forgets in the Internet Movie Database (English)