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Umkhovu

Auch bekannt als: imikhovu, esemkofu, esimkovu
Folklore und MythenUntotZauberei1500 bis 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

Gegen ihn kämpfen
Erstmals belegt
1875
Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)
Herkunft
Zulu
Südafrika
Was es auslöst
Zauberei
A witch or wizard digs up a corpse and brings it back to life as a familiar.
Wie man einer wird
A dead person exhumed and revived by a witch.
Intelligenz
Hirnlos

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

Antike
Mittelalter
1500 bis 1899
1900 bis 1967
1968 bis 1999
2000 bis 2009
2010 bis heute
1875

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

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

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

Quellen

  1. Esemkofu - Dictionary of South African English

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Folklore aus denselben Ländern

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

Gleiche Epoche: 1500 bis 1899

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