Nyongo working dead

Er numnà: nyongo, ekongi, kupe, Mount Kupe zombies

Folclore e mitusNunmortStriegn1900 fin 1967

Nyongo is a Cameroonian witchcraft belief in which the newly rich are suspected of killing their kin by occult means and putting them to work as the living dead. The victims toil unseen on Mount Kupe, in Bakossi country, to build their owner's fortune. Anthropologists link the belief to colonial plantation agriculture and, later, to economic crisis. It is one of the best-studied African parallels to the Haitian zombi, and like it turns on the theft of a dead person's labour.1 2 3

Al cumbat

Documentà l'emprima giada

1950

Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s

Origin

Cameroonian (Bakweri, Bakossi and neighbouring peoples)

Camerun

Tge che chaschuna quai

Striegn

Members of a secret witch society are believed to 'sell' relatives, who seem to die but are taken from the grave to work.

Co ch'ins daventa in

A nyongo member makes a relative appear to die, then removes the person from the grave.

Intelligenza

Senza tscharvè

Puncts flaivels

witch-finding: villages paid the witch-hunter Obasi Njom to cleanse them
suspected members were beheaded or buried face down so they would not rise as ekongi

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Antica Temp medieval 1500 fin 1899 1900 fin 1967 1968 fin 1999 2000 fin 2009 2010 fin oz

1950

Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s

notizias da champ

Tge che las funtaunas din

The victims' labour is said to make their owner rich1 2 3

Dead rats were said to be laid under the 'corpse' to hasten the burial1 2 3

Tin roofs were taken as a sign of membership, which for a time discouraged people from building modern houses1 2 3

Children were warned not to pick up coins from the ground, which might be bait1 2 3

Accusations rose sharply after the economic crisis of the late 1980s1 2 3

A 1992 road accident that killed schoolchildren was blamed on a headmaster 'giving' them to the society1 2 3

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