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Illustration of Toraja walking dead
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
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Toraja walking dead

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Ma'nene, walking corpses of Tana Toraja
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐtwetwe ne nanAbayisɛm2000 kɔsi 2009

The Toraja of Sulawesi keep their dead close: bodies are preserved, periodically exhumed and paraded in the Ma'nene rite. Around this real practice a story has grown that Torajan corpses can walk home under their own power. Scholars who work in the region say the story is a distortion, spread as Torajans living in cities post photographs of the ritual online. The case shows how a zombie legend can form in the present day around an unfamiliar funeral custom.1

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
2009
The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual
Mfiase
Torajan (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Indonesia
Deɛ ɛde ba
Abayisɛm
In the legend, the dead are made to walk back to their home villages.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A person who dies away from home; in one telling, the fallen of an old war between West and East Toraja.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛtwetwe ne nan
Nyansa
Adwene nni mu

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ2009

The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

In the Ma'nene ceremony families exhume mummified relatives, wash them, dress them in new clothes and walk them through the village1

2

A legend tells of defeated Torajan warriors whose corpses walked home1

3

Photographs of the ritual have repeatedly gone viral as 'real zombies'1

4

Anthropologist Kathleen Adams calls the walking-dead stories a corrupted version of what the ritual involves1

5

Fact-checkers have traced specific viral claims to misread photos of Ma'nene1

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛtwetwe ne nan), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Toraja walking dead bɛyɛ 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
Sakrekafoɔ a ɔyɛ ntɛm bɛyɛ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fibea

  1. Did an Indonesian Woman Come Out of Her Grave? - Snopes

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].

Ma dɔm no aduane. Dawurubɔ nni hɔ, trackers nni hɔ, onipa baako na ɔtua ho ka. Akyɛdeɛ ma ɛkɔ so wɔ intanɛt so.Ma akyɛdeɛ

Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

PocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayToyolMalay and IndonesianLangsuyarMalay, 1891
Ma dɔm no aduaneMa akyɛdeɛ