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Illustration of Corpo-seco
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Corpo-seco

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Corpo Seco, Dry Body
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewNnome

The Corpo-seco, or 'dry body', is a Brazilian revenant defined by rejection. Refused by heaven, hell and the soil, the desiccated corpse of a great sinner cannot remain buried and roams after dark. The legend works as moral instruction, above all about the treatment of parents. It is Brazil's best-known native walking corpse.12

Fa ko
Mfiase
Brazilian
Brazil
Deɛ ɛde ba
Nnome
The dead man's sin was so great that neither God nor the devil will take the soul, and the earth itself throws the body out.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
Someone who committed an unforgivable sin, in most tellings mistreating his own parents.
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Looks like a dried-out corpse, nothing but skin and bone12

2

Reported from Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and the north-east12

3

Told as a warning against abusing parents and disrespecting priests12

4

A version from Cambira in Paraná, dating from the 1950s, makes him a man who broke a vow to Our Lady of Aparecida12

5

There he flags down lorry drivers for a lift and vanishes at the site of his fatal accident12

Fibea

  1. Lenda do Corpo-seco - Toda Matéria
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

Asɛm biara a ɛwɔ krataafa yi so fi saa fibea yi mu, na yɛde yɛn ankasa nsɛm na akyerɛw. Wohunuu mfomsoɔ bi? Ka kyerɛ yɛn wɔ [email protected].

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GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
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