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Churel

다른 이름: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri

민담과 신화언데드다양함불운한 죽음 또는 매장1500~1899년

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

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첫 기록

1880

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

기원

South Asian

인도, 파키스탄, 방글라데시, 네팔

원인

불운한 죽음 또는 매장

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

어떻게 좀비가 되나

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

움직이는 방식

다양함

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

지능

영리함

약점

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