Churel

Beste izen batzuk: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri

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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

Borrokan jarri

Lehen erregistroa

1880

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

Jatorria

South Asian

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal

Zerk eragiten duen

Heriotza edo ehorzketa txarra

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

Nola bihurtzen zaren bat

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

Nola mugitzen den

Aldakorra

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

Adimena

Argia

Puntu ahulak

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