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Örek

Tamén chamado: örək, öräk
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeBruxaría

The örek is an animated corpse in the folklore of the Turkic peoples of the Volga region and Anatolia. It is a body raised by sorcery, described in the available accounts in terms very close to the modern zombie. The sources are thin and partly shaped by modern usage. It belongs with the hortlak and ubır in a Turkic family of risen dead.1

Á batalla!
Orixe
Turkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)
Rusia, Turquía, Acerbaixán
Que o causa
Bruxaría
A corpse brought back by magical means such as witchcraft.
Como te convertes nun
Raised by witchcraft.
Intelixencia
Sen mente
notas de campo

O que din as fontes

1

In Tatar and Bashkir the word itself means 'soul' or 'ghost'1

2

Described as an animated corpse 'brought back to life' by magic1

3

Portrayed as mindless and hungry for human flesh1

4

Some communities held that a dead person could become one through the involvement of a girl dressed in white1

5

Listed alongside the hortlak in studies of Tatar mythology1

Fontes

  1. Orek - Wikipedia

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