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Örek

Era ayitibwa: örək, öräk
Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaAbafu abalamuObulogo

The örek is an animated corpse in the folklore of the Turkic peoples of the Volga region and Anatolia. It is a body raised by sorcery, described in the available accounts in terms very close to the modern zombie. The sources are thin and partly shaped by modern usage. It belongs with the hortlak and ubır in a Turkic family of risen dead.1

Lwanyisa
Gy'ava
Turkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)
Lasa, Ttake, Azerubayijaani
Ekikireeta
Obulogo
A corpse brought back by magical means such as witchcraft.
Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo
Raised by witchcraft.
Amagezi
Talina magezi
ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

1

In Tatar and Bashkir the word itself means 'soul' or 'ghost'1

2

Described as an animated corpse 'brought back to life' by magic1

3

Portrayed as mindless and hungry for human flesh1

4

Some communities held that a dead person could become one through the involvement of a girl dressed in white1

5

Listed alongside the hortlak in studies of Tatar mythology1

Ensibuko

  1. Orek - Wikipedia

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UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)MhachkayTatar and wider Turkic, 1833

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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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