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Umkhovu

अर्को नाम: imikhovu, esemkofu, esimkovu
लोककथा र मिथकमृततन्त्रमन्त्र1500 देखि 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

लडाउनुहोस्
पहिलो अभिलेख
1875
Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)
उत्पत्ति
Zulu
दक्षिण अफ्रिका
यसको कारण के हो
तन्त्रमन्त्र
A witch or wizard digs up a corpse and brings it back to life as a familiar.
तपाईं कसरी एउटा बन्नुहुन्छ
A dead person exhumed and revived by a witch.
बुद्धि
दिमागविहीन

यो पहिलो पटक कहिले देखा पर्‍यो?

प्राचीन संसार
मध्ययुग
1500 देखि 1899
1900 देखि 1967
1968 देखि 1999
2000 देखि 2009
2010 देखि आजसम्म
1875

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

क्षेत्र टिपोट

स्रोतले के भन्छन्

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

स्रोतहरू

  1. Esemkofu - Dictionary of South African English

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उही भूमिका लोककथा

उही युग: 1500 देखि 1899