Jud (giant-ghost)
Jud / Judi / Xhudhi
Giant-ghost and xhudhi race; animal forms; horse-belly refuge; night beater of drunkards.
Description
Giant-ghost / pre-human race figure. Elsie s.v. Jud: animal forms (ox, donkey, snake, dog, goose); as horse throws/tramples riders — survivor hides under the belly; night wanderer who beats drunkards. Dukagjin xhudhi = giants before mankind; toponyms Vorret/Guri/Kalaja e Xhudhi*. Tirta Judi: beast-shifter, enemy of drunkards, horse-belly escape. Distinct from the grave lugat’s corpse physiology.
Features
- animal form + horse trampling (Elsie/Tirta)
- night beating of drunkards (Elsie/Tirta)
- Dukagjin pre-human giant-race memory (Elsie/Tirta)
Lead story
At night the jud comes as ox or goose or horse. If the horse throws you, only the belly is safe. In Dukagjin they still name stones and graves of the xhudhi — giants before people. He is not the same as the grave lugat, though the names have been tangled.
Aliases
Jud · Judi · Xhudhi · Xhudhia · Xhulli
Region
Northern Dukagjin highlands (xhudhi giant-race + toponyms); wider jud animal-shift night wrestler
Relations
- Lugat (pest-revenant)not the same as
Linked stories
- Jud and the LugatRecorded
Jud: beast-shifter giant-ghost and xhudhi race memory. Lugat keeps the grave revenant.