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Ro-langs

E boetse e bitswa: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE a thekeselaBademona kapa meya e mebe

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

Di lwantshe
Tshimoloho
Tibetan
Tjhaena
Se e bakang
Bademona kapa meya e mebe
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E a thekesela
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Bohlale
Ha e na kelello
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • 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
dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

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

Na o ka e phonyoha ka ho matha?

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

Ro-langs hoo e ka bang 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
Mopalami wa baesekele ya lebelo hoo e ka bang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Mehlodi

  1. Ro-langs - 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

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

Tse ding tse kang ena

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