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Galmee Lak. 435, 446 keessaa

Quỷ nhập tràng

Maqaa biraa: quy nhap trang, demon entering the corpse
Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eNi fiigaJinniiwwan ykn hafuurota hamoo

Quỷ nhập tràng is the Vietnamese belief that a fresh corpse can be occupied by a malevolent spirit and get up. The standard trigger is a black cat jumping across the body, which is why Vietnamese wakes traditionally keep the coffin under constant watch. The risen dead is hungry, strange and hostile, and collapses into advanced decay once exorcised. It is Vietnam's native form of the reanimated corpse.12

Lolsiisi
Ka'umsa
Vietnamese
Veetinaam
Maaltu isa fida
Jinniiwwan ykn hafuurota hamoo
An evil spirit takes over a newly dead body, classically when a black cat jumps over the corpse or coffin.
Akkamitti isa taata
A cat leaps over the body before burial; in another version spirits seize the body of someone weak and dying.
Akkamitti sochoo'a
Ni fiiga
The corpse sits up or gets to its feet and chases the living.
Beekumsa
Beekumsa muraasa
Bakkeewwan laafoo
  • never leaving the coffin unattended during the wake, so no cat can cross it
  • an exorcist, who drives the spirit out
yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

1

The name describes a demon entering a corpse12

2

The possessed person may seem to have recovered and pass among the living for days12

3

It gives itself away by odd behaviour and a craving for raw blood or live animals12

4

When the spirit is expelled the body rots at once, as though dead for days12

5

Sceptics suggest the stories began with people wrongly declared dead who woke at their own funerals12

6

The same fear of cats near the dead occurs in Chinese jiangshi lore12

Fiigdee isa jalaa ba'uu dandeessaa?

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

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

Maddoota

  1. Ghosts and demons in Vietnamese folklore - TheSmartLocal Vietnam
  2. Cat Over the Coffin - USC Digital Folklore Archives

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