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Toraja walking dead

Yitwa kandi: Ma'nene, walking corpses of Tana Toraja
Imigani n'inkuru za keraAbapfuye bazimaIrakurura amaguruUbupfumu2000 kugeza 2009

The Toraja of Sulawesi keep their dead close: bodies are preserved, periodically exhumed and paraded in the Ma'nene rite. Around this real practice a story has grown that Torajan corpses can walk home under their own power. Scholars who work in the region say the story is a distortion, spread as Torajans living in cities post photographs of the ritual online. The case shows how a zombie legend can form in the present day around an unfamiliar funeral custom.1

Bashyire ku murwano
Yanditswe bwa mbere
2009
The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual
Inkomoko
Torajan (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Indoneziya
Icyayiteye
Ubupfumu
In the legend, the dead are made to walk back to their home villages.
Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi
A person who dies away from home; in one telling, the fallen of an old war between West and East Toraja.
Uko igenda
Irakurura amaguru
Ubwenge
Nta bwenge

Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?

Isi ya keraIbihe byo hagati1500 kugeza 18991900 kugeza 19671968 kugeza 19992000 kugeza 20092010 kugeza ubu2009

The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual

inyandiko zo ku kibuga

Ibyo amasoko avuga

1

In the Ma'nene ceremony families exhume mummified relatives, wash them, dress them in new clothes and walk them through the village1

2

A legend tells of defeated Torajan warriors whose corpses walked home1

3

Photographs of the ritual have repeatedly gone viral as 'real zombies'1

4

Anthropologist Kathleen Adams calls the walking-dead stories a corrupted version of what the ritual involves1

5

Fact-checkers have traced specific viral claims to misread photos of Ma'nene1

Wayisiga wiruka?

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

Toraja walking dead 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. Did an Indonesian Woman Come Out of Her Grave? - Snopes

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