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Örek

E boetse e bitswa: örək, öräk
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengBoloi

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

Di lwantshe
Tshimoloho
Turkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)
Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan
Se e bakang
Boloi
A corpse brought back by magical means such as witchcraft.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
Raised by witchcraft.
Bohlale
Ha e na kelello
dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

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

Mehlodi

  1. Orek - 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].

Fepa letshwele. Ha ho dipapatso, ha ho disebedisi tsa ho latela, e lefellwa ke motho a le mong. Tjhelete ya teboho e e boloka inthaneteng.Fana ka tjhelete ya teboho

Ditshomo tsa dinaha tseo

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

Tse ding tse kang ena

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Fepa letshweleFana ka tjhelete ya teboho