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Hortlak

Yitwa kandi: hortdan, xortdan, cadı, obur
Imigani n'inkuru za keraAbapfuye bazima1500 kugeza 1899

Hortlak is the everyday Turkish word for a dead person who climbs back out of the grave. Ottoman judges and muftis were asked to rule on such cases from at least the 16th century and authorised staking or burning the bodies, much as Christian authorities did in the Balkans. Related figures appear among the Azerbaijanis (xortdan) and Tatars. The tradition shows that the walking-corpse panic of south-eastern Europe was shared across the religious frontier.12

Bashyire ku murwano
Yanditswe bwa mbere
1550
Cases involving hortlaks appear in Ottoman kadı court records from the mid-16th century
Inkomoko
Turkish and wider Turkic
Turukiya, Azerubayijani
Icyayiteye
Ntibyigeze bisobanurwa
The dead person does not stay dead; Ottoman usage often attributes this to the deceased having been a witch (cadı).
Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi
A corpse that fails to decay in the grave, often that of a reputed witch or sorcerer.
Ubwenge
Ifite ubwenge buke
Intege nke
  • a stake through the heart or body
  • burning
  • decapitation
  • quicklime poured on the corpse
  • throwing the body into a river

Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?

Isi ya keraIbihe byo hagati1500 kugeza 18991900 kugeza 19671968 kugeza 19992000 kugeza 20092010 kugeza ubu1550

Cases involving hortlaks appear in Ottoman kadı court records from the mid-16th century

inyandiko zo ku kibuga

Ibyo amasoko avuga

1

The name comes from the Turkish verb hortlamak, to come up out of the grave12

2

The traveller Evliya Çelebi defined obur as witches, sorcerers and those who rise from their graves12

3

Ottoman fatwas permitted exhuming and destroying corpses that returned to trouble the living12

4

Risen cadıs were blamed for throwing stones, moving objects and possessing animals12

5

In 1826 former Janissaries at Tırnova were publicly branded as risen dead, a case historians read as political12

Amasoko

  1. Hortdan - Wikipedia
  2. Vampires in Turkish Culture - KÜRE Encyclopedia

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MhachkayTatar and wider Turkic, 1833ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

Ibihe bimwe: 1500 kugeza 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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