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Mhachkay

Er numnà: Meçkey, Mäçkäy, Мәцкәй
Folclore e mitusNunmortCurra1500 fin 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

Al cumbat
Documentà l'emprima giada
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
Origin
Tatar and wider Turkic
Russia, Tirchia, Bulgaria
Tge che chaschuna quai
Auter
A person born with two hearts and two souls: at death one soul departs and the other revives the body.
Co ch'ins daventa in
Being born with two souls; such people were expected to die young.
Co ch'el sa mova
Curra
Flies at night in the shape of an owl and attacks travellers.
Intelligenza
Intgina intelligenza
Puncts flaivels
  • 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)

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AnticaTemp medieval1500 fin 18991900 fin 19671968 fin 19992000 fin 20092010 fin oz1833

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

notizias da champ

Tge che las funtaunas din

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

Fissas ti pli svelt?

Classa da sveltezza tenor la descripziun en las funtaunas (curra), betg ina mesiraziun.

Ti, a pe var 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, a la currida var 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
In creschì sportiv en sprint var 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mhachkay var 24 km/h (15 mph)
In ciclist svelt var 37 km/h (23 mph)

Funtaunas

  1. Mhachkay - Wikipedia

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Folclore da las medemas terras

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)

Medema epoca: 1500 fin 1899

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