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Mhachkay

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Folklorea eta mitoaHil-biziakKorrika egiten du1500etik 1899ra

The mhachkay is a Tatar and Turkic revenant explained by a double soul. The second soul stays in the dead body and sends it out to feed, typically as an owl. An Ottoman judge's report from Tarnovo in 1833 shows the belief acted on: two corpses were dug up, staked, scalded and finally burned. Its near-identity with the Slavic strzyga points to long exchange of undead lore between Turkic and Slavic neighbours.1

Borrokan jarri
Lehen erregistroa
1833
An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses
Jatorria
Tatar and wider Turkic
Errusia, Turkia, Bulgaria
Zerk eragiten duen
Bestelakoak
A person born with two hearts and two souls: at death one soul departs and the other revives the body.
Nola bihurtzen zaren bat
Being born with two souls; such people were expected to die young.
Nola mugitzen den
Korrika egiten du
Flies at night in the shape of an owl and attacks travellers.
Adimena
Adimen pixka bat
Puntu ahulak
  • beheading the corpse and burying the head apart from the body
  • burial face down with a sickle round the neck
  • burning, when stakes and boiling water failed (1833 case)

Noiz agertu zen lehen aldiz?

AntzinaroaErdi Aroa1500etik 1899ra1900etik 1967ra1968tik 1999ra2000tik 2009ra2010etik gaur arte1833

An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses

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Iturriek diotena

1

Sucks blood and eats the entrails of its victims1

2

Can be held off for a while with animal blood1

3

A person found in the woods with torn nails and fresh soil and blood on the hands was taken for one and driven away1

4

In the 1833 case the exhumed bodies of two former Janissaries were said to have grown, with longer hair and nails1

5

The description matches the Polish strzyga almost point for point1

Ihes egingo zenioke korrika?

Abiadura-maila, iturriek nola deskribatzen duten oinarritzat hartuta (korrika egiten du), ez neurketa bat.

Zu, oinez 5 km/h (3.1 mph) inguru
Zu, korrika arin 10 km/h (6.2 mph) inguru
Heldu sasoiko bat lasterka bizian 24 km/h (15 mph) inguru
Mhachkay 24 km/h (15 mph) inguru
Txirrindulari azkar bat 37 km/h (23 mph) inguru

Iturriak

  1. Mhachkay - Wikipedia

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Lurralde berberetako folklorea

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

Garai bera: 1500etik 1899ra

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
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