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Umkhovu

Er numnà: imikhovu, esemkofu, esimkovu
Folclore e mitusNunmortStriegn1500 fin 1899

The umkhovu is the Zulu form of the witch's zombie: a body taken from the grave, revived by magic and kept as a familiar. Its tongue is removed so that it cannot speak. Colonial-era writers recorded the belief in the 1870s, half a century before The Magic Island popularised the Haitian zombi. It belongs to the same family as the zombie beliefs reported from South Africa in the late 20th century.1

Al cumbat
Documentà l'emprima giada
1875
Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)
Origin
Zulu
Africa dal Sid
Tge che chaschuna quai
Striegn
A witch or wizard digs up a corpse and brings it back to life as a familiar.
Co ch'ins daventa in
A dead person exhumed and revived by a witch.
Intelligenza
Senza tscharvè

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AnticaTemp medieval1500 fin 18991900 fin 19671968 fin 19992000 fin 20092010 fin oz1875

Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)

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1

The Zulu word means an exhumed corpse revived as a witch's servant1

2

The witch cuts out its tongue, so that it can only make a wailing sound1

3

English writers of the 19th century rendered the plural as 'Esemkofu'1

4

H. Rider Haggard used them in his Zulu novel Nada (1895), haunting a 'Ghost Mountain'1

5

The Dictionary of South African English records the term from 1875 to 19251

Funtaunas

  1. Esemkofu - Dictionary of South African English

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Folclore da las medemas terras

South African witchcraft zombieSouth African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)

Medema epoca: 1500 fin 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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