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Fayiro Nnamba 435 ku 446

Quỷ nhập tràng

Era ayitibwa: quy nhap trang, demon entering the corpse
Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaAbafu abalamuAddukaBadayimooni oba emyoyo emibi

Quỷ nhập tràng is the Vietnamese belief that a fresh corpse can be occupied by a malevolent spirit and get up. The standard trigger is a black cat jumping across the body, which is why Vietnamese wakes traditionally keep the coffin under constant watch. The risen dead is hungry, strange and hostile, and collapses into advanced decay once exorcised. It is Vietnam's native form of the reanimated corpse.12

Lwanyisa
Gy'ava
Vietnamese
Vyetinaamu
Ekikireeta
Badayimooni oba emyoyo emibi
An evil spirit takes over a newly dead body, classically when a black cat jumps over the corpse or coffin.
Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo
A cat leaps over the body before burial; in another version spirits seize the body of someone weak and dying.
Engeri gy'atambulamu
Adduka
The corpse sits up or gets to its feet and chases the living.
Amagezi
Amagezi matono
Ebifo ebinafu
  • never leaving the coffin unattended during the wake, so no cat can cross it
  • an exorcist, who drives the spirit out
ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

1

The name describes a demon entering a corpse12

2

The possessed person may seem to have recovered and pass among the living for days12

3

It gives itself away by odd behaviour and a craving for raw blood or live animals12

4

When the spirit is expelled the body rots at once, as though dead for days12

5

Sceptics suggest the stories began with people wrongly declared dead who woke at their own funerals12

6

The same fear of cats near the dead occurs in Chinese jiangshi lore12

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)
Quỷ nhập tràng nga 24 km/h (15 mph)
Omuvuzi wa ggaali ow'embiro nga 37 km/h (23 mph)

Ensibuko

  1. Ghosts and demons in Vietnamese folklore - TheSmartLocal Vietnam
  2. Cat Over the Coffin - USC Digital Folklore Archives

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Ebifaanana bino

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