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Ro-langs

Rinonziwo: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Ngano nezvitendero zvekareVakafa vakamukaRinokweva makumboMadhimoni kana mweya yakaipa

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

Ita hondo
Kwakabva
Tibetan
China
Chikonzero chacho
Madhimoni kana mweya yakaipa
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
Kuti munhu anova zombie sei
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
Mafambiro aro
Rinokweva makumbo
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Njere
Risina njere
Utera
  • 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
zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

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

Waigona kuritiza uchimhanya?

Chikamu chekumhanya chinobva pamatsananguriro anoita zvinyorwa (rinokweva makumbo), kwete chiyero.

Ro-langs zvinenge 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Iwe, uchifamba zvinenge 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Iwe, uchimhanya-mhanya zvinenge 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Munhu mukuru akasimba achimhanya nesimba rese zvinenge 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mutasvi webhasikoro anomhanya zvinenge 37 km/h (23 mph)

Zvinyorwa

  1. Ro-langs - Wikipedia

Chokwadi chese chiri papeji iyi chinobva muzvinyorwa izvi, chakanyorwa nemazwi edu. Waona chikanganiso? Tiudze pa [email protected].

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

Zvimwe zvakafanana

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