Animated skeletons

Animated skeletons – a kind of undead material, understanding of which has been preserved from ancient times. Living skeletons are found in the mythology of many peoples, as well as more modern works of the genres of fantasy, Gothic and horror. As a rule, it is in these works is the skeletons of a man, but sometimes they belong to animals or mythical creatures.

Often, though not always, the skeletons are a symbol of death or symbolize the fear of death – phobia, in any person and is the ancestor of all other fears. Death as one of the biblical horsemen of the Apocalypse are traditionally portrayed as a skeleton on horseback. Since the early middle ages and to this day in European culture Death often takes the form of a skeleton with a scythe, dressed in white or black robe with a hood. Perhaps the connection of the image of Death with the living skeletons based on the description of the valley of the dry bones in the biblical book of Ezekiel.

But Death is not the only mystical creature that takes the form of a human skeleton. The notion ' beings, which is associated with the skeleton and bones exist in different cultures of the world:

• Quenching-LEGO minifigures online. The huge skeleton from Japanese folklore that wanders around in the darkest hours of the night.
• Mekuria. In Japanese mythology it is giant mounds of skulls and severed heads that look on people.
• Szanse. In the Chinese mythology – who died an unnatural death or left without burial of the dead became a vampire.
• Targetrow bull. Created by a sorcerer from hooves and bones of a Ghost from Icelandic folklore who looks like a bull with drooping skin.
• La Segou. The kind of werewolf from the folklore of Nicaragua: a creature with a horse skull for a head, which can turn into a beautiful long-haired girl.
• Cow's death. Personification of death of cattle in the Eastern Slavs, appears in the guise of a cow's skeleton (the symbol that emerged on the model of the common form of human death).
• Acciani. In the folklore of the Eskimos is a Ghost in the form of a skeleton dancing a jig.
• Acheri. Spirit in the guise of a little girl or the skeleton coming down from the mountains and bringing disease and death. Circulated in the folklore of North Indian region Kamon.
• Anka. The harbinger of death from the folklore of the inhabitants of the Peninsula of Brittany. Has the form of a tall gaunt man with long white hair and empty eyes, dressed in a black cloak and a black wide-brimmed hat. This person is lucky funeral carriage pulled by skeleton horses or yellow skinny horse. Sometimes takes the shape of the skeleton
• Tank. Skeletal spirits in Haitian vodun.
• The tank-kujira, also Baka-kudzira, or the Medium-kudzira. A creature from Japanese mythology that looks like a ghostly skeleton of a whale.
• Dappy. In Caribbean folklore, is a spirit of a dead man, able to take the form of animals (in particular, a three-legged horse) or people (e.g., "Susan-with-long-Tits", orgig. "Long-Bubby Susan", which throws her Breasts across the shoulders). Moves it backwards. If he doesn't take someone's form, it looks like a haze, a Ghost or white translucent skeleton.
• Gasadalur. A creature from Japanese folklore, a giant skeleton fifteen times taller than a person of average height, consists of the bones of people who died from hunger.
• Amelanchier. Creatures from folklore Visayan Islands. Half-dead and half-decayed corpses that can only move in a straight line and slowly and methodically stalking his prey, and overtook – you can tickle her to certain death from fear and laughter.

From the above examples we can conclude that the image of the skeleton always represents something bad or sad: death, sickness, loss. However, such a representation is not true. Thus, the attribute of celebrating of Day of the dead in Mexico is a calaca (Calaca Spanish, that translates from the colloquial Mexican Spanish as "skeleton") is a figure of a skull or skeleton (usually human) engaged in routine work. Usually calaca depict joyful: they wear festive clothes, dance and play musical instruments, all kind of talking about happiness in the afterlife. This image is based on rising to the religion of the Aztecs of the Mexican belief that the dead souls do not worry about death, which is a joyful event.

Essentially animated skeleton is a zombie in the final stage of decay, with rotten flesh and fallen away. It is usually assumed that it moves solely due to the magical energy of some artifact or vital energy brings a skeleton sorcerer. If this flow of energy to interrupt (kill the sorcerer to destroy the artifact, etc.), then revived the remains will turn into a normal. Sometimes there are views that the source of energy for the walking skeleton becomes a restless spirit, it's too late to instill in his own body, which by that time had time to decompose to the bone.

Recently revived skeletons are rarely found in testimonies, but retain their positions in popular culture: films, cartoons, books, and especially in games.

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