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South African witchcraft zombie

Pia huitwa: xidachane, maduxwane, witch-train zombies
Ngano na hadithi za kaleWafuUchawi

In parts of South Africa, witchcraft belief includes people turned into zombies to labour for a witch. The victims are thought of as the stolen dead: small, mute and put to work at night. Stories of 'witch trains' staffed by zombies spread once railways began carrying migrant workers to the mines and cities. Scholars treat the belief as a commentary on labour exploitation, which is the same anxiety that produced the Haitian zombi.12

Pambana nao
Asili
South African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)
Afrika Kusini
Nini husababisha
Uchawi
A witch kills the victim, or makes them seem to die, and takes control of the body for forced labour.
Jinsi unavyokuwa mmoja
A witch's spell; in some accounts even a small child can zombify a dead person.
Akili
Hana akili
Sehemu dhaifu
  • a sufficiently powerful sangoma (traditional healer) can break the spell
maelezo ya uwandani

Vyanzo vinasema nini

1

Called xidachane in Sotho and Tsonga and maduxwane in Venda12

2

Imagined as shrunken in size, with the tongue cut out so that it cannot speak or protest12

3

Witch trains, ordinary-looking trains crewed by zombies, were said to abduct people at night12

4

Passengers were either zombified or beaten and thrown off far from home12

5

Anthropologist Isak Niehaus reads the belief as a picture of migrant labour and domination12

Vyanzo

  1. Zombie - Wikipedia
  2. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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Lisha kundi la zombi. Hakuna matangazo, hakuna vifuatiliaji, analipia mtu mmoja. Bakshishi huiweka tovuti hewani.Acha bakshishi

Ngano kutoka nchi hizo hizo

UmkhovuZulu, 1875

Zaidi kama huyu

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Lisha kundi la zombiAcha bakshishi