
Toraja walking dead
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
ມັນປາກົດຄັ້ງທຳອິດເມື່ອໃດ?
The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual
ແຫຼ່ງຂໍ້ມູນບອກວ່າແນວໃດ
In the Ma'nene ceremony families exhume mummified relatives, wash them, dress them in new clothes and walk them through the village1
A legend tells of defeated Torajan warriors whose corpses walked home1
Photographs of the ritual have repeatedly gone viral as 'real zombies'1
Anthropologist Kathleen Adams calls the walking-dead stories a corrupted version of what the ritual involves1
Fact-checkers have traced specific viral claims to misread photos of Ma'nene1
ເຈົ້າຈະແລ່ນໜີມັນທັນບໍ່?
ລະດັບຄວາມໄວອີງຕາມຄຳບັນຍາຍຂອງແຫຼ່ງຂໍ້ມູນ (ລາກຂາຍ່າງ), ບໍ່ແມ່ນການວັດແທກ.
ແຫຼ່ງຂໍ້ມູນ
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