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South African witchcraft zombie
Auch bekannt als: xidachane, maduxwane, witch-train zombies
In parts of South Africa, witchcraft belief includes people turned into zombies to labour for a witch. The victims are thought of as the stolen dead: small, mute and put to work at night. Stories of 'witch trains' staffed by zombies spread once railways began carrying migrant workers to the mines and cities. Scholars treat the belief as a commentary on labour exploitation, which is the same anxiety that produced the Haitian zombi.12
Herkunft
South African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)
SüdafrikaWas es auslöst
Zauberei
A witch kills the victim, or makes them seem to die, and takes control of the body for forced labour.Wie man einer wird
A witch's spell; in some accounts even a small child can zombify a dead person.
Intelligenz
Hirnlos
Schwachstellen
- a sufficiently powerful sangoma (traditional healer) can break the spell
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