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Toraja walking dead

Era ayitibwa: Ma'nene, walking corpses of Tana Toraja
Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaAbafu abalamuYeekululaObulogo2000 okutuuka 2009

The Toraja of Sulawesi keep their dead close: bodies are preserved, periodically exhumed and paraded in the Ma'nene rite. Around this real practice a story has grown that Torajan corpses can walk home under their own power. Scholars who work in the region say the story is a distortion, spread as Torajans living in cities post photographs of the ritual online. The case shows how a zombie legend can form in the present day around an unfamiliar funeral custom.1

Lwanyisa
Yasooka okuwandiikibwa
2009
The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual
Gy'ava
Torajan (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Yindonezya
Ekikireeta
Obulogo
In the legend, the dead are made to walk back to their home villages.
Engeri omuntu gy'afuukamu omu ku bo
A person who dies away from home; in one telling, the fallen of an old war between West and East Toraja.
Engeri gy'atambulamu
Yeekulula
Amagezi
Talina magezi

Yasooka ddi okulabika?

Ensi ey'eddaEmirembe egya wakati1500 okutuuka 18991900 okutuuka 19671968 okutuuka 19992000 okutuuka 20092010 okutuuka leero2009

The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual

ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

1

In the Ma'nene ceremony families exhume mummified relatives, wash them, dress them in new clothes and walk them through the village1

2

A legend tells of defeated Torajan warriors whose corpses walked home1

3

Photographs of the ritual have repeatedly gone viral as 'real zombies'1

4

Anthropologist Kathleen Adams calls the walking-dead stories a corrupted version of what the ritual involves1

5

Fact-checkers have traced specific viral claims to misread photos of Ma'nene1

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Toraja walking dead nga 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
Omuvuzi wa ggaali ow'embiro nga 37 km/h (23 mph)

Ensibuko

  1. Did an Indonesian Woman Come Out of Her Grave? - Snopes

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PocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayToyolMalay and IndonesianLangsuyarMalay, 1891
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