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Zombi (Haitian)

Imadziwikanso kuti: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre
Nthano ndi zikhulupiriroWakufa wamoyoImakoka mapaziUfiti1500 mpaka 1899

The zombi of Haitian folklore is a dead or seemingly dead person taken from the grave by a sorcerer and kept as a slave without will. The word comes from Central African languages, and the belief was shaped by the plantation slavery of colonial Haiti, where death was supposed to be the one escape from forced labour. Researchers have proposed drugs, mental illness and mistaken identity to explain reported cases, and none of these accounts is settled. This figure, a body that works and obeys but is no longer a person, is the origin of the word and the concept behind every later zombie.12

Amenyane!
Inalembedwa koyamba
1750
The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery
Kochokera
Haitian (Vodou folklore)
Haiti
Chimayambitsa
Ufiti
A sorcerer (bokor) either raises a buried body by necromancy or captures the part of the soul that carries will and memory, leaving a controllable shell.
Momwe umasandukira zombie
A bokor makes the victim appear to die, takes the body from the grave at night and holds its ti bon anj, the seat of will and personality.
Momwe imayendera
Imakoka mapazi
Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.
Nzeru
Wopanda nzeru
Malo ofooka
  • salt or salt water, which is said to wake it or release it
  • preventive burial: laying the corpse face down, filling the mouth with earth or sewing the lips shut
  • sesame seeds scattered on the grave to keep the spirit counting

Inaoneka liti koyamba?

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

zolemba za kumunda

Zimene magwero akunena

1

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others12

2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'12

3

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle12

4

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements12

5

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves12

6

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)12

Ukanatha kuithawa?

Gulu la liwiro malinga ndi momwe magwero amaifotokozera (imakoka mapazi), osati muyeso.

Zombi (Haitian) pafupifupi 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Iwe, ukuyenda pafupifupi 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Iwe, ukuthamanga pang'onopang'ono pafupifupi 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Munthu wamkulu wamphamvu akuthamanga kwambiri pafupifupi 24 km/h (15 mph)
Woyendetsa njinga wothamanga pafupifupi 37 km/h (23 mph)

Magwero

  1. Zombie - Wikipedia
  2. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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