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Toraja walking dead

Maqaa biraa: Ma'nene, walking corpses of Tana Toraja
Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eLafa harkisaa deemaFalfala2000 hanga 2009

The Toraja of Sulawesi keep their dead close: bodies are preserved, periodically exhumed and paraded in the Ma'nene rite. Around this real practice a story has grown that Torajan corpses can walk home under their own power. Scholars who work in the region say the story is a distortion, spread as Torajans living in cities post photographs of the ritual online. The case shows how a zombie legend can form in the present day around an unfamiliar funeral custom.1

Lolsiisi
Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame
2009
The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual
Ka'umsa
Torajan (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Indooneeshiyaa
Maaltu isa fida
Falfala
In the legend, the dead are made to walk back to their home villages.
Akkamitti isa taata
A person who dies away from home; in one telling, the fallen of an old war between West and East Toraja.
Akkamitti sochoo'a
Lafa harkisaa deema
Beekumsa
Sammuu malee

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

Addunyaa duriiJaarraa Gidduugaleessaa1500 hanga 18991900 hanga 19671968 hanga 19992000 hanga 20092010 hanga har'aa2009

The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual

yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

1

In the Ma'nene ceremony families exhume mummified relatives, wash them, dress them in new clothes and walk them through the village1

2

A legend tells of defeated Torajan warriors whose corpses walked home1

3

Photographs of the ritual have repeatedly gone viral as 'real zombies'1

4

Anthropologist Kathleen Adams calls the walking-dead stories a corrupted version of what the ritual involves1

5

Fact-checkers have traced specific viral claims to misread photos of Ma'nene1

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Sadarkaa saffisaa akkaataa maddoonni itti ibsan irraa (lafa harkisaa deema), safara miti.

Toraja walking dead gara 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
Saayikilii oofaa ariifataa gara 37 km/h (23 mph)

Maddoota

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PocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayToyolMalay and IndonesianLangsuyarMalay, 1891
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