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Churel

Maqaa biraa: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri
Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eGaragaraDu'a ykn awwaalcha hamaa1500 hanga 1899

The churel is the dangerous dead woman of South Asian folklore, the returned form of someone who died in childbirth or through ill-treatment. She seduces and destroys men, beginning with her own male relatives. The precautions taken against her are aimed squarely at the corpse: it is pinned, bound, broken and buried face down under thorns and stones. Those measures closely match anti-revenant burial practice in Europe.1

Lolsiisi
Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame
1880
Described in colonial-era ethnography, including William Crooke's study of North Indian folklore (1894)
Ka'umsa
South Asian
Hindii, Paakistaan, Banglaadesh, Neppaal
Maaltu isa fida
Du'a ykn awwaalcha hamaa
A woman who dies in childbirth, in pregnancy or during ritual impurity, or by cruelty, returns.
Akkamitti isa taata
Death in or around childbirth, or any unnatural death; in Bengal, dying unmarried or with desires unfulfilled.
Akkamitti sochoo'a
Garagara
Waits near trees and lonely places and leads men away into woods or hills.
Beekumsa
Qaroo
Bakkeewwan laafoo
  • filling the grave with thorns and piling stones on top
  • nailing or binding the fingers and toes with iron
  • breaking the legs, sewing the eyes shut with thorns and burying the body face down
  • sowing mustard seed along the funeral route
  • carrying the body out through a side door

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

Addunyaa duriiJaarraa Gidduugaleessaa1500 hanga 18991900 hanga 19671968 hanga 19992000 hanga 20092010 hanga har'aa1880

Described in colonial-era ethnography, including William Crooke's study of North Indian folklore (1894)

yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

1

Described as a 'demonical revenant' with a physical, monstrous body1

2

Her feet point backwards1

3

She can appear as a beautiful woman, behind which is a pot belly, claws and fangs1

4

She drains men's vitality so that they return aged, or kills them, starting with the youngest males of her own family1

5

The belief travelled with Indian indentured labourers to Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname1

Fiigdee isa jalaa ba'uu dandeessaa?

Sadarkaa saffisaa akkaataa maddoonni itti ibsan irraa (garagara), safara miti.

Ati, deemaa gara 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ati, suuta fiigaa gara 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Churel gara 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ga'eessa qaamaan jabaa kan ariitiin fiigu gara 24 km/h (15 mph)
Saayikilii oofaa ariifataa gara 37 km/h (23 mph)

Maddoota

  1. Churel - Wikipedia

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Seenaa aadaa biyyoota wal fakkaatan irraa

VetalaHindu (Indian), 1070

Bara wal fakkaataa: 1500 hanga 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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