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Ro-langs

Er numnà: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Folclore e mitusNunmortSa strascinaDemunis u spierts nauschs

The ro-langs is the Tibetan walking corpse. One kind is raised deliberately by a tantric practitioner for occult ends; the other is a body hijacked by a demon and spreads its condition by touch, in stories where a whole community is infected in a night. It is stiff, mute and has to be physically broken to be stopped. The combination of contagion by contact and a mindless, lurching body makes it one of the closest folkloric matches for the modern film zombie.1

Al cumbat
Origin
Tibetan
China
Tge che chaschuna quai
Demunis u spierts nauschs
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
Co ch'ins daventa in
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
Co ch'el sa mova
Sa strascina
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Intelligenza
Senza tscharvè
Puncts flaivels
  • low doorways, since it cannot stoop
  • breaking the skin, drawing blood, cutting the flesh or breaking a bone, according to its type
  • striking the single mole that is the only weak point of the 'mole' type
notizias da champ

Tge che las funtaunas din

1

The name means 'risen corpse'1

2

It cannot speak and signals by wagging its tongue from side to side1

3

Tradition lists five types, named for what must be damaged to stop them: skin, blood, flesh, bone and mole1

4

It cannot be killed, only made to 'fall over'1

5

Old Tibetan houses are said to have been built with low door frames to keep it out1

6

Wylie noted that some 'risen' dead in the stories were probably people waking from coma1

Fissas ti pli svelt?

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

Ro-langs var 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
In ciclist svelt var 37 km/h (23 mph)

Funtaunas

  1. Ro-langs - Wikipedia

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Folclore da las medemas terras

JiangshiChinese, 1789Xiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)

Dapli da quest gener

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