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Ro-langs

Babengaka mpe: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Masapo mpe makambo ya bankokoMokufi oyo atambolakaAtambolaka na kobendanaBademo to milimo mabe

The ro-langs is the Tibetan walking corpse. One kind is raised deliberately by a tantric practitioner for occult ends; the other is a body hijacked by a demon and spreads its condition by touch, in stories where a whole community is infected in a night. It is stiff, mute and has to be physically broken to be stopped. The combination of contagion by contact and a mindless, lurching body makes it one of the closest folkloric matches for the modern film zombie.1

Bundisa bango
Esika awuti
Tibetan
Shine
Nini ebimisaka yango
Bademo to milimo mabe
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
Ndenge okokoma zombi
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
Ndenge atambolaka
Atambolaka na kobendana
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Mayele
Mayele te
Bisika ya bolembu
  • low doorways, since it cannot stoop
  • breaking the skin, drawing blood, cutting the flesh or breaking a bone, according to its type
  • striking the single mole that is the only weak point of the 'mole' type
makomi ya mosala

Oyo maziba ya sango elobi

1

The name means 'risen corpse'1

2

It cannot speak and signals by wagging its tongue from side to side1

3

Tradition lists five types, named for what must be damaged to stop them: skin, blood, flesh, bone and mole1

4

It cannot be killed, only made to 'fall over'1

5

Old Tibetan houses are said to have been built with low door frames to keep it out1

6

Wylie noted that some 'risen' dead in the stories were probably people waking from coma1

Okokaki kokima yango?

Etuluku ya lombangu na kolanda ndenge maziba ya sango elimboli yango (atambolaka na kobendana), kasi bomekeli te.

Ro-langs pene na 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Yo, kotambola pene na 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Yo, kopota mbangu malembe pene na 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Moto mokolo ya nzoto makasi oyo azali kopota mbangu makasi pene na 24 km/h (15 mph)
Moto ya velo oyo akendaka mbangu pene na 37 km/h (23 mph)

Maziba ya sango

  1. Ro-langs - Wikipedia

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Masapo ya mikili moko

JiangshiChinese, 1789Xiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)

Mosusu ya ndenge oyo

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayToyolMalay and IndonesianCondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)Corpo-secoBrazilianDearg DueIrish (modern legend)
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