Churel

Ana kuma kiransa: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri

Tatsuniya da almaraMatacce mai tafiyaYa bambantaMummunar mutuwa ko jana'iza1500 zuwa 1899

The churel is the dangerous dead woman of South Asian folklore, the returned form of someone who died in childbirth or through ill-treatment. She seduces and destroys men, beginning with her own male relatives. The precautions taken against her are aimed squarely at the corpse: it is pinned, bound, broken and buried face down under thorns and stones. Those measures closely match anti-revenant burial practice in Europe.1

Yaƙe shi

Aka fara rubutawa

1880

Described in colonial-era ethnography, including William Crooke's study of North Indian folklore (1894)

Asali

South Asian

Indiya, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal

Abin da ke haddasa shi

Mummunar mutuwa ko jana'iza

A woman who dies in childbirth, in pregnancy or during ritual impurity, or by cruelty, returns.

Yadda ake zama ɗaya

Death in or around childbirth, or any unnatural death; in Bengal, dying unmarried or with desires unfulfilled.

Yadda yake motsi

Ya bambanta

Waits near trees and lonely places and leads men away into woods or hills.

Hankali

Mai wayo

Raunin maki

filling the grave with thorns and piling stones on top
nailing or binding the fingers and toes with iron
breaking the legs, sewing the eyes shut with thorns and burying the body face down
sowing mustard seed along the funeral route
carrying the body out through a side door