Churel

Digər adı: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri

Folklor və mifÖlümsüzDəyişirPis ölüm və ya dəfn1500–1899

The churel is the dangerous dead woman of South Asian folklore, the returned form of someone who died in childbirth or through ill-treatment. She seduces and destroys men, beginning with her own male relatives. The precautions taken against her are aimed squarely at the corpse: it is pinned, bound, broken and buried face down under thorns and stones. Those measures closely match anti-revenant burial practice in Europe.1

Onunla döyüş

İlk qeydə alınıb

1880

Described in colonial-era ethnography, including William Crooke's study of North Indian folklore (1894)

Mənşə

South Asian

Hindistan, Pakistan, Banqladeş, Nepal

Nə səbəb olur

Pis ölüm və ya dəfn

A woman who dies in childbirth, in pregnancy or during ritual impurity, or by cruelty, returns.

Necə zombiyə çevrilirsiniz

Death in or around childbirth, or any unnatural death; in Bengal, dying unmarried or with desires unfulfilled.

Necə hərəkət edir

Dəyişir

Waits near trees and lonely places and leads men away into woods or hills.

Ağıl

Ağıllı

Zəif nöqtələr

filling the grave with thorns and piling stones on top
nailing or binding the fingers and toes with iron
breaking the legs, sewing the eyes shut with thorns and burying the body face down
sowing mustard seed along the funeral route
carrying the body out through a side door