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Örek

Maqaa biraa: örək, öräk
Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eFalfala

The örek is an animated corpse in the folklore of the Turkic peoples of the Volga region and Anatolia. It is a body raised by sorcery, described in the available accounts in terms very close to the modern zombie. The sources are thin and partly shaped by modern usage. It belongs with the hortlak and ubır in a Turkic family of risen dead.1

Lolsiisi
Ka'umsa
Turkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)
Raashiyaa, Turkii, Azarbaajaan
Maaltu isa fida
Falfala
A corpse brought back by magical means such as witchcraft.
Akkamitti isa taata
Raised by witchcraft.
Beekumsa
Sammuu malee
yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

1

In Tatar and Bashkir the word itself means 'soul' or 'ghost'1

2

Described as an animated corpse 'brought back to life' by magic1

3

Portrayed as mindless and hungry for human flesh1

4

Some communities held that a dead person could become one through the involvement of a girl dressed in white1

5

Listed alongside the hortlak in studies of Tatar mythology1

Maddoota

  1. Orek - Wikipedia

Dhugaan fuula kana irra jiru hundi maddoota kana irraa dhufe, jechoota keenyaan barreeffame. Dogoggora argitee? [email protected] irratti nutti himi.

Tuuta nyaachisi. Beeksisa hin jiru, hordoftuun hin jiru, nama tokkoon kaffalama. Gumaachi toora irra akka turu godha.Gumaacha kenni

Seenaa aadaa biyyoota wal fakkaatan irraa

UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)MhachkayTatar and wider Turkic, 1833

Kan akkasii dabalataa

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Tuuta nyaachisiGumaacha kenni