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Mhachkay

Imadziwikanso kuti: Meçkey, Mäçkäy, Мәцкәй
Nthano ndi zikhulupiriroWakufa wamoyoImathamanga1500 mpaka 1899

The mhachkay is a Tatar and Turkic revenant explained by a double soul. The second soul stays in the dead body and sends it out to feed, typically as an owl. An Ottoman judge's report from Tarnovo in 1833 shows the belief acted on: two corpses were dug up, staked, scalded and finally burned. Its near-identity with the Slavic strzyga points to long exchange of undead lore between Turkic and Slavic neighbours.1

Amenyane!
Inalembedwa koyamba
1833
An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses
Kochokera
Tatar and wider Turkic
Rasha, Turkey, Bulgaria
Chimayambitsa
Zina
A person born with two hearts and two souls: at death one soul departs and the other revives the body.
Momwe umasandukira zombie
Being born with two souls; such people were expected to die young.
Momwe imayendera
Imathamanga
Flies at night in the shape of an owl and attacks travellers.
Nzeru
Nzeru pang'ono
Malo ofooka
  • beheading the corpse and burying the head apart from the body
  • burial face down with a sickle round the neck
  • burning, when stakes and boiling water failed (1833 case)

Inaoneka liti koyamba?

Dziko lakaleNyengo Zapakati1500 mpaka 18991900 mpaka 19671968 mpaka 19992000 mpaka 20092010 mpaka lero1833

An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses

zolemba za kumunda

Zimene magwero akunena

1

Sucks blood and eats the entrails of its victims1

2

Can be held off for a while with animal blood1

3

A person found in the woods with torn nails and fresh soil and blood on the hands was taken for one and driven away1

4

In the 1833 case the exhumed bodies of two former Janissaries were said to have grown, with longer hair and nails1

5

The description matches the Polish strzyga almost point for point1

Ukanatha kuithawa?

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

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)
Mhachkay pafupifupi 24 km/h (15 mph)
Woyendetsa njinga wothamanga pafupifupi 37 km/h (23 mph)

Magwero

  1. Mhachkay - Wikipedia

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Dyetsa khamu. Palibe zotsatsa, palibe zokuzonda, zolipiridwa ndi munthu mmodzi. Ndalama yothokoza imaisunga pa intaneti.Siya ndalama yothokoza

Nthano zochokera ku mayiko omwewo

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

Nyengo yomweyo: 1500 mpaka 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
Dyetsa khamuSiya ndalama yothokoza