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Umkhovu

Babengaka mpe: imikhovu, esemkofu, esimkovu
Masapo mpe makambo ya bankokoMokufi oyo atambolakaKindoki1500 kino 1899

The umkhovu is the Zulu form of the witch's zombie: a body taken from the grave, revived by magic and kept as a familiar. Its tongue is removed so that it cannot speak. Colonial-era writers recorded the belief in the 1870s, half a century before The Magic Island popularised the Haitian zombi. It belongs to the same family as the zombie beliefs reported from South Africa in the late 20th century.1

Bundisa bango
Ekomamaki mbala ya liboso
1875
Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)
Esika awuti
Zulu
Afrika ya Sidi
Nini ebimisaka yango
Kindoki
A witch or wizard digs up a corpse and brings it back to life as a familiar.
Ndenge okokoma zombi
A dead person exhumed and revived by a witch.
Mayele
Mayele te

Abimaki mbala ya liboso ntango nini?

Mokili ya kalaEleko ya katikati1500 kino 18991900 kino 19671968 kino 19992000 kino 20092010 kino lelo1875

Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)

makomi ya mosala

Oyo maziba ya sango elobi

1

The Zulu word means an exhumed corpse revived as a witch's servant1

2

The witch cuts out its tongue, so that it can only make a wailing sound1

3

English writers of the 19th century rendered the plural as 'Esemkofu'1

4

H. Rider Haggard used them in his Zulu novel Nada (1895), haunting a 'Ghost Mountain'1

5

The Dictionary of South African English records the term from 1875 to 19251

Maziba ya sango

  1. Esemkofu - Dictionary of South African English

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Masapo ya mikili moko

South African witchcraft zombieSouth African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)

Eleko moko: 1500 kino 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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