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Mhachkay

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Meçkey, Mäçkäy, Мәцкәй
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐtu mmirika1500 kɔsi 1899

The mhachkay is a Tatar and Turkic revenant explained by a double soul. The second soul stays in the dead body and sends it out to feed, typically as an owl. An Ottoman judge's report from Tarnovo in 1833 shows the belief acted on: two corpses were dug up, staked, scalded and finally burned. Its near-identity with the Slavic strzyga points to long exchange of undead lore between Turkic and Slavic neighbours.1

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1833
An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses
Mfiase
Tatar and wider Turkic
Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria
Deɛ ɛde ba
Ɛfoforɔ
A person born with two hearts and two souls: at death one soul departs and the other revives the body.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
Being born with two souls; such people were expected to die young.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛtu mmirika
Flies at night in the shape of an owl and attacks travellers.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • beheading the corpse and burying the head apart from the body
  • burial face down with a sickle round the neck
  • burning, when stakes and boiling water failed (1833 case)

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ1833

An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Sucks blood and eats the entrails of its victims1

2

Can be held off for a while with animal blood1

3

A person found in the woods with torn nails and fresh soil and blood on the hands was taken for one and driven away1

4

In the 1833 case the exhumed bodies of two former Janissaries were said to have grown, with longer hair and nails1

5

The description matches the Polish strzyga almost point for point1

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛtu mmirika), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Wo, nantew bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wo, mmirika brɛoo bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ɔpanin a ne ho yɛ den a ɔtu mmirika denden bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mhachkay bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Sakrekafoɔ a ɔyɛ ntɛm bɛyɛ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fibea

  1. Mhachkay - Wikipedia

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Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

Berɛ koro: 1500 kɔsi 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
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