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Mhachkay

E boetse e bitswa: Meçkey, Mäçkäy, Мәцкәй
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE a matha1500 ho isa 1899

The mhachkay is a Tatar and Turkic revenant explained by a double soul. The second soul stays in the dead body and sends it out to feed, typically as an owl. An Ottoman judge's report from Tarnovo in 1833 shows the belief acted on: two corpses were dug up, staked, scalded and finally burned. Its near-identity with the Slavic strzyga points to long exchange of undead lore between Turkic and Slavic neighbours.1

Di lwantshe
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
1833
An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses
Tshimoloho
Tatar and wider Turkic
Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria
Se e bakang
Tse ding
A person born with two hearts and two souls: at death one soul departs and the other revives the body.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
Being born with two souls; such people were expected to die young.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E a matha
Flies at night in the shape of an owl and attacks travellers.
Bohlale
Bohlale bo itseng
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • beheading the corpse and burying the head apart from the body
  • burial face down with a sickle round the neck
  • burning, when stakes and boiling water failed (1833 case)

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

Lefatshe la boholoholoMehla e Bohareng1500 ho isa 18991900 ho isa 19671968 ho isa 19992000 ho isa 20092010 ho fihlela kajeno1833

An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

1

Sucks blood and eats the entrails of its victims1

2

Can be held off for a while with animal blood1

3

A person found in the woods with torn nails and fresh soil and blood on the hands was taken for one and driven away1

4

In the 1833 case the exhumed bodies of two former Janissaries were said to have grown, with longer hair and nails1

5

The description matches the Polish strzyga almost point for point1

Na o ka e phonyoha ka ho matha?

Sehlopha sa lebelo ho ya ka kamoo mehlodi e e hlalosang kateng (e a matha), eseng tekanyo.

Wena, o tsamaya hoo e ka bang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o matha butle hoo e ka bang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho e moholo ya matla a mathang ka lebelo le leholo hoo e ka bang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mhachkay hoo e ka bang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele ya lebelo hoo e ka bang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Mehlodi

  1. Mhachkay - Wikipedia

Ntlha e nngwe le e nngwe leqepheng lena e tswa mehloding ena, e ngotswe ka mantswe a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelle ho [email protected].

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Ditshomo tsa dinaha tseo

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

Mehla e tshwanang: 1500 ho isa 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
Fepa letshweleFana ka tjhelete ya teboho