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Kukudh

Imadziwikanso kuti: kukudhi, kukuvriq, karkanxholl
Nthano ndi zikhulupiriroWakufa wamoyo

The kukudh is an Albanian revenant with two faces: the undead miser who will not leave his house, and a demon of epidemic disease. Nobody would spend a night in a dead miser's home for fear of it. The double meaning, corpse and plague at once, is the same association found in Greek, Slavic and English revenant lore. The name is probably connected with an Albanian word for lamenting.1

Amenyane!
Kochokera
Albanian
Albania
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Zina
The soul of a miser cannot leave his property; in another tradition it is a lugat that was not burned in time.
Momwe umasandukira zombie
A miser dies and stays on to guard his house.
Malo ofooka
  • strangling it with a noose made of vine
zolemba za kumunda

Zimene magwero akunena

1

Pictured in some districts as a short, stocky man with a goat's tail1

2

Ordinary weapons do not harm it1

3

Only a brave boy can defeat it, and he is rewarded as its heir1

4

In southern Albania the same name is given to a blind female plague demon1

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The related karkanxholl is a corpse that roams in January loaded with chains and breathing out death1

Magwero

  1. Kukudh - Wikipedia

Mfundo iliyonse patsamba lino ikuchokera ku magwero awa, yolembedwa m'mawu athu. Waona cholakwika? Tiuze pa [email protected].

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Nthano zochokera ku mayiko omwewo

LugatAlbanian

Zina zofanana ndi izi

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Dyetsa khamuSiya ndalama yothokoza