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Kukudh

Era ayitibwa: kukudhi, kukuvriq, karkanxholl
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The kukudh is an Albanian revenant with two faces: the undead miser who will not leave his house, and a demon of epidemic disease. Nobody would spend a night in a dead miser's home for fear of it. The double meaning, corpse and plague at once, is the same association found in Greek, Slavic and English revenant lore. The name is probably connected with an Albanian word for lamenting.1

Lwanyisa
Gy'ava
Albanian
Alubaniya
Ekikireeta
Ebirala
The soul of a miser cannot leave his property; in another tradition it is a lugat that was not burned in time.
Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo
A miser dies and stays on to guard his house.
Ebifo ebinafu
  • strangling it with a noose made of vine
ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

1

Pictured in some districts as a short, stocky man with a goat's tail1

2

Ordinary weapons do not harm it1

3

Only a brave boy can defeat it, and he is rewarded as its heir1

4

In southern Albania the same name is given to a blind female plague demon1

5

The related karkanxholl is a corpse that roams in January loaded with chains and breathing out death1

Ensibuko

  1. Kukudh - Wikipedia

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LugatAlbanian

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GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
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