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Tupilaq

Rinonziwo: tupilak, ᑐᐱᓚᒃ, tupilait
Ngano nezvitendero zvekareZvimweZvinosiyanaUroyi

The tupilaq is a constructed monster of Greenlandic tradition, stitched together from animal remains and human child corpses and animated to carry out a murder. It has no purpose but its maker's revenge and it will destroy him if it fails. Although it is assembled rather than raised whole, it belongs with the sorcerer-controlled dead of other cultures. Its nearest literary cousin is Frankenstein's creature.1

Ita hondo
Kwakabva
Greenlandic Inuit
Greenland, Canada
Chikonzero chacho
Uroyi
A practitioner of sorcery assembles it from dead matter and sings it to life.
Kuti munhu anova zombie sei
Built in secret, at night, from animal bone, skin, hair and sinew, and sometimes parts of children's corpses.
Mafambiro aro
Zvinosiyana
Released into the sea, it travels to find and kill the person it was made for.
Njere
Risina njere
Utera
  • a victim with stronger magic can turn it back on its maker
  • the maker can save himself by public confession
zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

1

The maker wore his parka back to front with the hood over his face1

2

The ritual involved sexual contact with the bones and chanting that could last for days1

3

None survive, since they were made of perishable materials1

4

Among other Inuit groups the word could mean an invisible ghost or a chimera only shamans could see1

5

The carved tupilak figures sold today began as models made to show curious Europeans what one looked like1

Waigona kuritiza uchimhanya?

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

Iwe, uchifamba zvinenge 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Iwe, uchimhanya-mhanya zvinenge 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Tupilaq 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. Tupilaq - Wikipedia

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Ngano dzekunyika dzimwe chete

Hooh-Strah-DoohWyandot (Huron)SkadegamutcWabanaki (Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki)

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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