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Umkhovu

Akpọkwa ya: imikhovu, esemkofu, esimkovu
Akụkọ ifo na akụkọ ọdịnalaNwụrụ anwụAmoosu1500 ruo 1899

The umkhovu is the Zulu form of the witch's zombie: a body taken from the grave, revived by magic and kept as a familiar. Its tongue is removed so that it cannot speak. Colonial-era writers recorded the belief in the 1870s, half a century before The Magic Island popularised the Haitian zombi. It belongs to the same family as the zombie beliefs reported from South Africa in the late 20th century.1

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Mgbe e dere ya nke mbụ
1875
Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)
Mmalite
Zulu
South Africa
Ihe na-akpata ya
Amoosu
A witch or wizard digs up a corpse and brings it back to life as a familiar.
Otu i si abụrụ otu
A dead person exhumed and revived by a witch.
Ọgụgụ isi
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Ụwa oge ochieOge etiti1500 ruo 18991900 ruo 19671968 ruo 19992000 ruo 20092010 ruo taa1875

Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)

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Ihe isi mmalite na-ekwu

1

The Zulu word means an exhumed corpse revived as a witch's servant1

2

The witch cuts out its tongue, so that it can only make a wailing sound1

3

English writers of the 19th century rendered the plural as 'Esemkofu'1

4

H. Rider Haggard used them in his Zulu novel Nada (1895), haunting a 'Ghost Mountain'1

5

The Dictionary of South African English records the term from 1875 to 19251

Isi mmalite

  1. Esemkofu - Dictionary of South African English

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South African witchcraft zombieSouth African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)

Otu oge: 1500 ruo 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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