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Mhachkay

Tamén chamado: Meçkey, Mäçkäy, Мәцкәй
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeCorreDe 1500 a 1899

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

Á batalla!
Primeiro rexistro
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
Orixe
Tatar and wider Turkic
Rusia, Turquía, Bulgaria
Que o causa
Outro
A person born with two hearts and two souls: at death one soul departs and the other revives the body.
Como te convertes nun
Being born with two souls; such people were expected to die young.
Como se move
Corre
Flies at night in the shape of an owl and attacks travellers.
Intelixencia
Algo de intelixencia
Puntos débiles
  • 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)

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigoIdade MediaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 ata hoxe1833

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

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

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

Poderías correr máis ca el?

Clase de velocidade segundo como o describen as fontes (corre), non unha medición.

Ti, camiñando uns 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, trotando uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulto en forma a toda velocidade uns 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mhachkay uns 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista rápido uns 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fontes

  1. Mhachkay - Wikipedia

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Mesma época: De 1500 a 1899

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