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Umkhovu

Ook bekend as: imikhovu, esemkofu, esimkovu
Volksverhale en mitesOndoodTowery1500 tot 1899

The umkhovu is the Zulu form of the witch's zombie: a body taken from the grave, revived by magic and kept as a familiar. Its tongue is removed so that it cannot speak. Colonial-era writers recorded the belief in the 1870s, half a century before The Magic Island popularised the Haitian zombi. It belongs to the same family as the zombie beliefs reported from South Africa in the late 20th century.1

Veg daarteen
Eerste opgeteken
1875
Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)
Oorsprong
Zulu
Suid-Afrika
Wat dit veroorsaak
Towery
A witch or wizard digs up a corpse and brings it back to life as a familiar.
Hoe jy een word
A dead person exhumed and revived by a witch.
Intelligensie
Breinloos

Wanneer het dit eerste verskyn?

Antieke wêreldMiddeleeue1500 tot 18991900 tot 19671968 tot 19992000 tot 20092010 tot vandag1875

Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)

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Wat die bronne sê

1

The Zulu word means an exhumed corpse revived as a witch's servant1

2

The witch cuts out its tongue, so that it can only make a wailing sound1

3

English writers of the 19th century rendered the plural as 'Esemkofu'1

4

H. Rider Haggard used them in his Zulu novel Nada (1895), haunting a 'Ghost Mountain'1

5

The Dictionary of South African English records the term from 1875 to 19251

Bronne

  1. Esemkofu - Dictionary of South African English

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Volksverhale uit dieselfde lande

South African witchcraft zombieSouth African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)

Selfde era: 1500 tot 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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