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Hooh-Strah-Dooh

Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewAbonsam anaa ahonhom bɔne

The Hooh-Strah-Dooh is a corpse-possessing spirit of the Wyandot people. It animates the dead in order to eat the living. The record is brief. It is nonetheless a clear instance of a flesh-eating reanimated corpse in a Native North American tradition.1

Fa ko
Mfiase
Wyandot (Huron)
Amerika, Canada
Deɛ ɛde ba
Abonsam anaa ahonhom bɔne
A spirit enters dead bodies and uses them.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A corpse is taken over by the spirit.
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • redbud, used as a ward
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Described as a spirit that inhabits corpses1

2

It uses the bodies to devour the living1

3

Redbud was believed to keep it away1

4

Listed among North American vampire-like beings in comparative surveys1

5

Little else about it is recorded in the source consulted1

Fibea

  1. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

TupilaqGreenlandic InuitSkadegamutcWabanaki (Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki)

Bebree a ɛte sɛ yei

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Ma dɔm no aduaneMa akyɛdeɛ