Klagmuhme
Ringkasan
Klagmuhme ("bibi peratap") adalah roh perempuan dalam cerita rakyat Jerman yang meratap dan merintih sebagai pertanda kematian, padanan banshee di Jerman.
The Klagmuhme ('wailing aunt') is a female sprite of German folklore whose wailing and whining foretell death, the German counterpart of the banshee.
Kisah dan tradisi
Klagmuhme atau Klagemuhme ("bibi peratap"), juga disebut Klagmutter ("ibu peratap"), adalah roh perempuan dalam cerita rakyat Jerman. Dengan ratapan dan rintihannya ia mengabarkan kematian yang akan datang, sehingga dianggap padanan banshee di Jerman. Ia pertama tercatat pada abad ke-15 dalam bahasa Jerman Tinggi Pertengahan sebagai klagmuoter, sebutan untuk burung hantu, dan sering disamakan dengan burung itu. Ia sering tampil sebagai hewan: anjing hitam berbulu panjang yang melolong mengitari rumah, angsa putih, merpati di talang, kucing kelabu besar berkerudung, atau domba putih berkaki tiga yang membesar menjadi raksasa bila diganggu. Dalam wujud manusia ia perempuan tua bergaun hitam berkerudung putih, perempuan kecil berwajah tertutup sarang laba-laba, atau sosok setinggi menara gereja berbalut kain kafan; ia juga bisa berupa gumpalan benang biru yang menyemburkan bunga api. Ratapannya pertanda maut dan bencana. Bila ia meratap di depan rumah orang sakit, pakaian si sakit dilempar keluar: jika Klagmuhme membawanya pergi, orang itu akan mati; jika ditinggalkannya, ia akan sembuh. Biasanya ia tak terlihat, melayang di atas rumah tanpa pernah masuk, aktif tengah malam, dan rintihannya ("u-u-u!") dapat membuat orang yang ketakutan jatuh sakit saraf, tetapi selain itu ia tidak mencelakai siapa pun. Asal-usulnya berbeda menurut daerah: di Austria ia arwah orang mati; di Sachsen arwah ibu malang yang mencari putranya yang tenggelam; di Kärnten dan Swiss ia bagian dari Perburuan Liar; di pegunungan Fichtel ia roh hutan perempuan (Waldweibchen).
The Klagmuhme or Klagemuhme ('wailing aunt'), also called Klagmutter ('wailing mother'), is a female sprite of German folklore. Through her wailing and whimpering she announces a coming death, making her the German counterpart of the banshee. She is first recorded in 15th-century Middle High German as klagmuoter, a name for the owl, and is often identified with that bird. She often takes animal form: a long-haired black dog howling round the house, a white goose, a dove in the gutter, a large grey cat in a headscarf, or a white three-legged sheep that swells to giant size if teased. In human form she is an old woman in a black dress and white scarf, a little woman whose face is veiled in cobwebs, or a figure as tall as a church steeple in a burial robe; she may also be a tangled blue clew spitting sparks. Her wailing heralds death and disaster. If she wails before a house with a sick person inside, the patient's clothes are thrown out of the door: if the Klagmuhme carries them off, the patient will die; if she leaves them, he will recover. She is usually invisible, hovering over houses without ever going in, active at midnight, and her whimper ('u-u-u!') can give frightened people a nervous illness, though otherwise she harms no one. Her origin differs by region: in Austria she is the soul of a dead person; in Saxony the soul of an unhappy mother searching for her drowned son; in Carinthia and Switzerland she belongs to the Wild Hunt; in the Fichtel Mountains she is a female wood sprite (Waldweibchen).
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Jerman
- Kawasan / Region
- Eropa
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Spirit
- Habitat
- Dwelling
- Kemampuan / Abilities
- Pertanda maut, Berganti rupa
Nama lain / Alternate names
Klagemuhme, Klagmutter, Winselmutter, Haulemutter
Tahukah kamu? / Did you know?
Untuk mengetahui nasib orang sakit, orang melempar pakaiannya ke luar pintu: bila Klagmuhme membawanya pergi, orang itu akan mati.
To learn a sick person's fate, people threw his clothes outside the door: if the Klagmuhme took them away, he would die.