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Hortlak

E boetse e bitswa: hortdan, xortdan, cadı, obur
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohileng1500 ho isa 1899

Hortlak is the everyday Turkish word for a dead person who climbs back out of the grave. Ottoman judges and muftis were asked to rule on such cases from at least the 16th century and authorised staking or burning the bodies, much as Christian authorities did in the Balkans. Related figures appear among the Azerbaijanis (xortdan) and Tatars. The tradition shows that the walking-corpse panic of south-eastern Europe was shared across the religious frontier.12

Di lwantshe
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
1550
Cases involving hortlaks appear in Ottoman kadı court records from the mid-16th century
Tshimoloho
Turkish and wider Turkic
Turkey, Azerbaijan
Se e bakang
Ha e so ka e hlaloswa
The dead person does not stay dead; Ottoman usage often attributes this to the deceased having been a witch (cadı).
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A corpse that fails to decay in the grave, often that of a reputed witch or sorcerer.
Bohlale
Bohlale bo itseng
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • a stake through the heart or body
  • burning
  • decapitation
  • quicklime poured on the corpse
  • throwing the body into a river

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Lefatshe la boholoholoMehla e Bohareng1500 ho isa 18991900 ho isa 19671968 ho isa 19992000 ho isa 20092010 ho fihlela kajeno1550

Cases involving hortlaks appear in Ottoman kadı court records from the mid-16th century

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1

The name comes from the Turkish verb hortlamak, to come up out of the grave12

2

The traveller Evliya Çelebi defined obur as witches, sorcerers and those who rise from their graves12

3

Ottoman fatwas permitted exhuming and destroying corpses that returned to trouble the living12

4

Risen cadıs were blamed for throwing stones, moving objects and possessing animals12

5

In 1826 former Janissaries at Tırnova were publicly branded as risen dead, a case historians read as political12

Mehlodi

  1. Hortdan - Wikipedia
  2. Vampires in Turkish Culture - KÜRE Encyclopedia

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MhachkayTatar and wider Turkic, 1833ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

Mehla e tshwanang: 1500 ho isa 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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