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Umkhovu

També anomenat: imikhovu, esemkofu, esimkovu
Folklore i miteMort viuBruixeriaDe 1500 a 1899

The umkhovu is the Zulu form of the witch's zombie: a body taken from the grave, revived by magic and kept as a familiar. Its tongue is removed so that it cannot speak. Colonial-era writers recorded the belief in the 1870s, half a century before The Magic Island popularised the Haitian zombi. It belongs to the same family as the zombie beliefs reported from South Africa in the late 20th century.1

Lluita-hi
Primer registre
1875
Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)
Origen
Zulu
Sud-àfrica
Què el causa
Bruixeria
A witch or wizard digs up a corpse and brings it back to life as a familiar.
Com et converteixes en un
A dead person exhumed and revived by a witch.
Intel·ligència
Sense seny

Quan va aparèixer per primer cop?

Món antic
Edat mitjana
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a avui
1875

Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)

notes de camp

Què diuen les fonts

1

The Zulu word means an exhumed corpse revived as a witch's servant1

2

The witch cuts out its tongue, so that it can only make a wailing sound1

3

English writers of the 19th century rendered the plural as 'Esemkofu'1

4

H. Rider Haggard used them in his Zulu novel Nada (1895), haunting a 'Ghost Mountain'1

5

The Dictionary of South African English records the term from 1875 to 19251

Fonts

  1. Esemkofu - Dictionary of South African English

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Folklore de les mateixes terres

South African witchcraft zombieSouth African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)

Mateixa època: De 1500 a 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732