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Nyongo working dead

Beste izen batzuk: nyongo, ekongi, kupe, Mount Kupe zombies
Folklorea eta mitoaHil-biziakSorginkeria1900etik 1967ra

Nyongo is a Cameroonian witchcraft belief in which the newly rich are suspected of killing their kin by occult means and putting them to work as the living dead. The victims toil unseen on Mount Kupe, in Bakossi country, to build their owner's fortune. Anthropologists link the belief to colonial plantation agriculture and, later, to economic crisis. It is one of the best-studied African parallels to the Haitian zombi, and like it turns on the theft of a dead person's labour.123

Borrokan jarri
Lehen erregistroa
1950
Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s
Jatorria
Cameroonian (Bakweri, Bakossi and neighbouring peoples)
Kamerun
Zerk eragiten duen
Sorginkeria
Members of a secret witch society are believed to 'sell' relatives, who seem to die but are taken from the grave to work.
Nola bihurtzen zaren bat
A nyongo member makes a relative appear to die, then removes the person from the grave.
Adimena
Burugabea
Puntu ahulak
  • witch-finding: villages paid the witch-hunter Obasi Njom to cleanse them
  • suspected members were beheaded or buried face down so they would not rise as ekongi

Noiz agertu zen lehen aldiz?

AntzinaroaErdi Aroa1500etik 1899ra1900etik 1967ra1968tik 1999ra2000tik 2009ra2010etik gaur arte1950

Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s

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Iturriek diotena

1

The victims' labour is said to make their owner rich123

2

Dead rats were said to be laid under the 'corpse' to hasten the burial123

3

Tin roofs were taken as a sign of membership, which for a time discouraged people from building modern houses123

4

Children were warned not to pick up coins from the ground, which might be bait123

5

Accusations rose sharply after the economic crisis of the late 1980s123

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A 1992 road accident that killed schoolchildren was blamed on a headmaster 'giving' them to the society123

Iturriak

  1. Nyongo society - Wikipedia
  2. Vivian Besem Ojong, 'The Working-Dead in Nyongo Occult Economy in Cameroonian Society', Journal of Dharma 37 (2012)
  3. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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Elikatu saldoa. Iragarkirik eta jarraipen-tresnarik gabe, pertsona bakar batek ordaindua. Eskupeko batek sarean mantentzen du.Utzi eskupeko bat

Garai bera: 1900etik 1967ra

AmalanhigVisayan (Philippines), 1967Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937
Elikatu saldoaUtzi eskupeko bat