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Umkhovu

Pia huitwa: imikhovu, esemkofu, esimkovu
Ngano na hadithi za kaleWafuUchawi1500 hadi 1899

The umkhovu is the Zulu form of the witch's zombie: a body taken from the grave, revived by magic and kept as a familiar. Its tongue is removed so that it cannot speak. Colonial-era writers recorded the belief in the 1870s, half a century before The Magic Island popularised the Haitian zombi. It belongs to the same family as the zombie beliefs reported from South Africa in the late 20th century.1

Pambana nao
Ilirekodiwa kwanza
1875
Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)
Asili
Zulu
Afrika Kusini
Nini husababisha
Uchawi
A witch or wizard digs up a corpse and brings it back to life as a familiar.
Jinsi unavyokuwa mmoja
A dead person exhumed and revived by a witch.
Akili
Hana akili

Ilionekana lini kwanza?

Dunia ya kaleZama za Kati1500 hadi 18991900 hadi 19671968 hadi 19992000 hadi 20092010 hadi leo1875

Described in D. Leslie's Among the Zulus (1875)

maelezo ya uwandani

Vyanzo vinasema nini

1

The Zulu word means an exhumed corpse revived as a witch's servant1

2

The witch cuts out its tongue, so that it can only make a wailing sound1

3

English writers of the 19th century rendered the plural as 'Esemkofu'1

4

H. Rider Haggard used them in his Zulu novel Nada (1895), haunting a 'Ghost Mountain'1

5

The Dictionary of South African English records the term from 1875 to 19251

Vyanzo

  1. Esemkofu - Dictionary of South African English

Kila ukweli kwenye ukurasa huu unatoka kwenye vyanzo hivi, umeandikwa kwa maneno yetu wenyewe. Umeona kosa? Tuambie kupitia [email protected].

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Ngano kutoka nchi hizo hizo

South African witchcraft zombieSouth African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)

Enzi hiyo hiyo: 1500 hadi 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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