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Ro-langs

Aussi appelé: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Folklore et mythesMort-vivantTraîne la patteDémons ou esprits malfaisants

The ro-langs is the Tibetan walking corpse. One kind is raised deliberately by a tantric practitioner for occult ends; the other is a body hijacked by a demon and spreads its condition by touch, in stories where a whole community is infected in a night. It is stiff, mute and has to be physically broken to be stopped. The combination of contagion by contact and a mindless, lurching body makes it one of the closest folkloric matches for the modern film zombie.1

L'affronter
Origine
Tibetan
Chine
Ce qui le provoque
Démons ou esprits malfaisants
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
Comment on en devient un
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
Comment il se déplace
Traîne la patte
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Intelligence
Sans cervelle
Points faibles
  • low doorways, since it cannot stoop
  • breaking the skin, drawing blood, cutting the flesh or breaking a bone, according to its type
  • striking the single mole that is the only weak point of the 'mole' type
notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

1

The name means 'risen corpse'1

2

It cannot speak and signals by wagging its tongue from side to side1

3

Tradition lists five types, named for what must be damaged to stop them: skin, blood, flesh, bone and mole1

4

It cannot be killed, only made to 'fall over'1

5

Old Tibetan houses are said to have been built with low door frames to keep it out1

6

Wylie noted that some 'risen' dead in the stories were probably people waking from coma1

Pourriez-vous le distancer ?

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

Ro-langs environ 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
Un cycliste rapide environ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. Ro-langs - Wikipedia

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