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Quỷ nhập tràng

También llamado: quy nhap trang, demon entering the corpse
Folclore y mitosNo muertoCorrenDemonios o espíritus malignos

Quỷ nhập tràng is the Vietnamese belief that a fresh corpse can be occupied by a malevolent spirit and get up. The standard trigger is a black cat jumping across the body, which is why Vietnamese wakes traditionally keep the coffin under constant watch. The risen dead is hungry, strange and hostile, and collapses into advanced decay once exorcised. It is Vietnam's native form of the reanimated corpse.12

Combatirlo
Origen
Vietnamese
Vietnam
Qué lo causa
Demonios o espíritus malignos
An evil spirit takes over a newly dead body, classically when a black cat jumps over the corpse or coffin.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A cat leaps over the body before burial; in another version spirits seize the body of someone weak and dying.
Cómo se mueve
Corren
The corpse sits up or gets to its feet and chases the living.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • never leaving the coffin unattended during the wake, so no cat can cross it
  • an exorcist, who drives the spirit out
notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

1

The name describes a demon entering a corpse12

2

The possessed person may seem to have recovered and pass among the living for days12

3

It gives itself away by odd behaviour and a craving for raw blood or live animals12

4

When the spirit is expelled the body rots at once, as though dead for days12

5

Sceptics suggest the stories began with people wrongly declared dead who woke at their own funerals12

6

The same fear of cats near the dead occurs in Chinese jiangshi lore12

¿Podrías huir de él?

Clase de velocidad según cómo la describen las fuentes (corren), no una medición.

Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h (15 mph)
Quỷ nhập tràng unos 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fuentes

  1. Ghosts and demons in Vietnamese folklore - TheSmartLocal Vietnam
  2. Cat Over the Coffin - USC Digital Folklore Archives

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