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South African witchcraft zombie

Ana kuma kiransa: xidachane, maduxwane, witch-train zombies
Tatsuniya da almaraMatacce mai tafiyaBokanci

In parts of South Africa, witchcraft belief includes people turned into zombies to labour for a witch. The victims are thought of as the stolen dead: small, mute and put to work at night. Stories of 'witch trains' staffed by zombies spread once railways began carrying migrant workers to the mines and cities. Scholars treat the belief as a commentary on labour exploitation, which is the same anxiety that produced the Haitian zombi.12

Yaƙe shi
Asali
South African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)
Afirka ta Kudu
Abin da ke haddasa shi
Bokanci
A witch kills the victim, or makes them seem to die, and takes control of the body for forced labour.
Yadda ake zama ɗaya
A witch's spell; in some accounts even a small child can zombify a dead person.
Hankali
Marar hankali
Raunin maki
  • a sufficiently powerful sangoma (traditional healer) can break the spell
bayanan fage

Abin da tushe suka ce

1

Called xidachane in Sotho and Tsonga and maduxwane in Venda12

2

Imagined as shrunken in size, with the tongue cut out so that it cannot speak or protest12

3

Witch trains, ordinary-looking trains crewed by zombies, were said to abduct people at night12

4

Passengers were either zombified or beaten and thrown off far from home12

5

Anthropologist Isak Niehaus reads the belief as a picture of migrant labour and domination12

Tushe

  1. Zombie - Wikipedia
  2. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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