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South African witchcraft zombie

Cunoscut și ca: xidachane, maduxwane, witch-train zombies
Folclor și mituriNemortVrăjitorie

In parts of South Africa, witchcraft belief includes people turned into zombies to labour for a witch. The victims are thought of as the stolen dead: small, mute and put to work at night. Stories of 'witch trains' staffed by zombies spread once railways began carrying migrant workers to the mines and cities. Scholars treat the belief as a commentary on labour exploitation, which is the same anxiety that produced the Haitian zombi.12

Luptă cu el
Origine
South African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)
Africa de Sud
Ce o provoacă
Vrăjitorie
A witch kills the victim, or makes them seem to die, and takes control of the body for forced labour.
Cum devii unul
A witch's spell; in some accounts even a small child can zombify a dead person.
Inteligență
Fără minte
Puncte slabe
  • a sufficiently powerful sangoma (traditional healer) can break the spell
note de teren

Ce spun sursele

1

Called xidachane in Sotho and Tsonga and maduxwane in Venda12

2

Imagined as shrunken in size, with the tongue cut out so that it cannot speak or protest12

3

Witch trains, ordinary-looking trains crewed by zombies, were said to abduct people at night12

4

Passengers were either zombified or beaten and thrown off far from home12

5

Anthropologist Isak Niehaus reads the belief as a picture of migrant labour and domination12

Surse

  1. Zombie - Wikipedia
  2. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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