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Ro-langs

Tamén chamado: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeArrastra os pésDemos ou espíritos malignos

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

Á batalla!
Orixe
Tibetan
China
Que o causa
Demos ou espíritos malignos
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
Como te convertes nun
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
Como se move
Arrastra os pés
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Intelixencia
Sen mente
Puntos débiles
  • 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
notas de campo

O que din as fontes

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

Poderías correr máis ca el?

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

Ro-langs uns 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
Un ciclista rápido uns 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fontes

  1. Ro-langs - Wikipedia

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