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Mhachkay

Era ayitibwa: Meçkey, Mäçkäy, Мәцкәй
Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaAbafu abalamuAdduka1500 okutuuka 1899

The mhachkay is a Tatar and Turkic revenant explained by a double soul. The second soul stays in the dead body and sends it out to feed, typically as an owl. An Ottoman judge's report from Tarnovo in 1833 shows the belief acted on: two corpses were dug up, staked, scalded and finally burned. Its near-identity with the Slavic strzyga points to long exchange of undead lore between Turkic and Slavic neighbours.1

Lwanyisa
Yasooka okuwandiikibwa
1833
An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses
Gy'ava
Tatar and wider Turkic
Lasa, Ttake, Bulugariya
Ekikireeta
Ebirala
A person born with two hearts and two souls: at death one soul departs and the other revives the body.
Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo
Being born with two souls; such people were expected to die young.
Engeri gy'atambulamu
Adduka
Flies at night in the shape of an owl and attacks travellers.
Amagezi
Amagezi matono
Ebifo ebinafu
  • beheading the corpse and burying the head apart from the body
  • burial face down with a sickle round the neck
  • burning, when stakes and boiling water failed (1833 case)

Yasooka ddi okulabika?

Ensi ey'eddaEmirembe egya wakati1500 okutuuka 18991900 okutuuka 19671968 okutuuka 19992000 okutuuka 20092010 okutuuka leero1833

An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses

ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

1

Sucks blood and eats the entrails of its victims1

2

Can be held off for a while with animal blood1

3

A person found in the woods with torn nails and fresh soil and blood on the hands was taken for one and driven away1

4

In the 1833 case the exhumed bodies of two former Janissaries were said to have grown, with longer hair and nails1

5

The description matches the Polish strzyga almost point for point1

Wandisobodde okumudduka?

Omutendera gw'embiro okusinziira ku ngeri ensibuko gye zimunnyonnyolamu (adduka), si kipimo.

Ggwe, ng'otambula nga 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ggwe, ng'odduka mpola nga 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Omuntu omukulu omugumu ng'adduka nnyo nga 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mhachkay nga 24 km/h (15 mph)
Omuvuzi wa ggaali ow'embiro nga 37 km/h (23 mph)

Ensibuko

  1. Mhachkay - Wikipedia

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Enfumo okuva mu nsi ze zimu

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

Omulembe gwe gumu: 1500 okutuuka 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
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