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Mhachkay

Yitwa kandi: Meçkey, Mäçkäy, Мәцкәй
Imigani n'inkuru za keraAbapfuye bazimaIriruka1500 kugeza 1899

The mhachkay is a Tatar and Turkic revenant explained by a double soul. The second soul stays in the dead body and sends it out to feed, typically as an owl. An Ottoman judge's report from Tarnovo in 1833 shows the belief acted on: two corpses were dug up, staked, scalded and finally burned. Its near-identity with the Slavic strzyga points to long exchange of undead lore between Turkic and Slavic neighbours.1

Bashyire ku murwano
Yanditswe bwa mbere
1833
An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses
Inkomoko
Tatar and wider Turkic
Uburusiya, Turukiya, Bulugariya
Icyayiteye
Ibindi
A person born with two hearts and two souls: at death one soul departs and the other revives the body.
Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi
Being born with two souls; such people were expected to die young.
Uko igenda
Iriruka
Flies at night in the shape of an owl and attacks travellers.
Ubwenge
Ifite ubwenge buke
Intege nke
  • beheading the corpse and burying the head apart from the body
  • burial face down with a sickle round the neck
  • burning, when stakes and boiling water failed (1833 case)

Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?

Isi ya keraIbihe byo hagati1500 kugeza 18991900 kugeza 19671968 kugeza 19992000 kugeza 20092010 kugeza ubu1833

An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses

inyandiko zo ku kibuga

Ibyo amasoko avuga

1

Sucks blood and eats the entrails of its victims1

2

Can be held off for a while with animal blood1

3

A person found in the woods with torn nails and fresh soil and blood on the hands was taken for one and driven away1

4

In the 1833 case the exhumed bodies of two former Janissaries were said to have grown, with longer hair and nails1

5

The description matches the Polish strzyga almost point for point1

Wayisiga wiruka?

Icyiciro cy'umuvuduko gishingiye ku buryo amasoko ayisobanura (iriruka), si igipimo.

Wowe, ugenda n'amaguru nka km/h 5
Wowe, wiruka buhoro nka km/h 10
Umuntu mukuru ufite imbaraga wiruka cyane nka km/h 24
Mhachkay nka km/h 24
Umunyonzi wihuta nka km/h 37

Amasoko

  1. Mhachkay - Wikipedia

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Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

Ibihe bimwe: 1500 kugeza 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
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