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Quỷ nhập tràng

Aussi appelé: quy nhap trang, demon entering the corpse
Folklore et mythesMort-vivantCourentDémons ou esprits malfaisants

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

L'affronter
Origine
Vietnamese
Vietnam
Ce qui le provoque
Démons ou esprits malfaisants
An evil spirit takes over a newly dead body, classically when a black cat jumps over the corpse or coffin.
Comment on en devient un
A cat leaps over the body before burial; in another version spirits seize the body of someone weak and dying.
Comment il se déplace
Courent
The corpse sits up or gets to its feet and chases the living.
Intelligence
Un peu d'intelligence
Points faibles
  • never leaving the coffin unattended during the wake, so no cat can cross it
  • an exorcist, who drives the spirit out
notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

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

Pourriez-vous le distancer ?

Classe de vitesse d'après la description des sources (courent), pas une mesure.

Vous, en marchant environ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Vous, en jogging environ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulte en forme qui sprinte environ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Quỷ nhập tràng environ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un cycliste rapide environ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

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

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