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Illustration of Ro-langs
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Ro-langs

Yitwa kandi: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Imigani n'inkuru za keraAbapfuye bazimaIrakurura amaguruAmadayimoni cyangwa imyuka mibi

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

Bashyire ku murwano
Inkomoko
Tibetan
Ubushinwa
Icyayiteye
Amadayimoni cyangwa imyuka mibi
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
Uko igenda
Irakurura amaguru
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Ubwenge
Nta bwenge
Intege nke
  • 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
inyandiko zo ku kibuga

Ibyo amasoko avuga

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

Wayisiga wiruka?

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

Ro-langs nka km/h 3
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
Umunyonzi wihuta nka km/h 37

Amasoko

  1. Ro-langs - Wikipedia

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

Ibindi nk'ibi

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayToyolMalay and IndonesianCondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)Corpo-secoBrazilianDearg DueIrish (modern legend)
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