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Toraja walking dead

ብኻልእ ስም: Ma'nene, walking corpses of Tana Toraja
ኣፈታሪኽን ጽውጽዋይንህያዋን ምዉታትእግሩ ይስሕብጥንቆላ2000 ክሳብ 2009

The Toraja of Sulawesi keep their dead close: bodies are preserved, periodically exhumed and paraded in the Ma'nene rite. Around this real practice a story has grown that Torajan corpses can walk home under their own power. Scholars who work in the region say the story is a distortion, spread as Torajans living in cities post photographs of the ritual online. The case shows how a zombie legend can form in the present day around an unfamiliar funeral custom.1

ኣዋግኦም
ፈለማ ዝተመዝገበሉ
2009
The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual
መበቆል
Torajan (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
ኢንዶነዥያ
ጠንቁ እንታይ እዩ
ጥንቆላ
In the legend, the dead are made to walk back to their home villages.
ብኸመይ ሓደ ካባታቶም ትኸውን
A person who dies away from home; in one telling, the fallen of an old war between West and East Toraja.
ከመይ ከም ዝንቀሳቐስ
እግሩ ይስሕብ
ብልሒ
ብዘይ ሓንጎል

መዓስ እዩ ፈለማ ዝተራእየ?

The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual

ናይ መስክ መዘኻኸሪ

ምንጭታት እንታይ ይብሉ

1

In the Ma'nene ceremony families exhume mummified relatives, wash them, dress them in new clothes and walk them through the village1

2

A legend tells of defeated Torajan warriors whose corpses walked home1

3

Photographs of the ritual have repeatedly gone viral as 'real zombies'1

4

Anthropologist Kathleen Adams calls the walking-dead stories a corrupted version of what the ritual involves1

5

Fact-checkers have traced specific viral claims to misread photos of Ma'nene1

ጎይኻ ምደሓንካ ዶ?

ደረጃ ቅልጣፈ ካብቲ ምንጭታት ዝገልጽዎ (እግሩ ይስሕብ) እዩ፣ መዐቀኒ ኣይኮነን።

Toraja walking dead ኣስታት 3 ኪሜ/ሰ
ንስኻ፣ ብእግሪ ክትከይድ ኣስታት 5 ኪሜ/ሰ
ንስኻ፣ ብቐስታ ክትጎዪ ኣስታት 10 ኪሜ/ሰ
ብሙሉእ ሓይሉ ዝጎዪ ብቑዕ ዓቢ ሰብ ኣስታት 24 ኪሜ/ሰ
ቅልጡፍ ብሽክለታ ዝዝውር ኣስታት 37 ኪሜ/ሰ

ምንጭታት

  1. Did an Indonesian Woman Come Out of Her Grave? - Snopes

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