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Örek

Rinonziwo: örək, öräk
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The örek is an animated corpse in the folklore of the Turkic peoples of the Volga region and Anatolia. It is a body raised by sorcery, described in the available accounts in terms very close to the modern zombie. The sources are thin and partly shaped by modern usage. It belongs with the hortlak and ubır in a Turkic family of risen dead.1

Ita hondo
Kwakabva
Turkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)
Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan
Chikonzero chacho
Uroyi
A corpse brought back by magical means such as witchcraft.
Kuti munhu anova zombie sei
Raised by witchcraft.
Njere
Risina njere
zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

1

In Tatar and Bashkir the word itself means 'soul' or 'ghost'1

2

Described as an animated corpse 'brought back to life' by magic1

3

Portrayed as mindless and hungry for human flesh1

4

Some communities held that a dead person could become one through the involvement of a girl dressed in white1

5

Listed alongside the hortlak in studies of Tatar mythology1

Zvinyorwa

  1. Orek - Wikipedia

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Ngano dzekunyika dzimwe chete

UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)MhachkayTatar and wider Turkic, 1833

Zvimwe zvakafanana

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
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