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Churel

Gape e bidiwa: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengGo a farologanaLoso kgotsa phitlho e e sa siamang1500 go ya go 1899

The churel is the dangerous dead woman of South Asian folklore, the returned form of someone who died in childbirth or through ill-treatment. She seduces and destroys men, beginning with her own male relatives. The precautions taken against her are aimed squarely at the corpse: it is pinned, bound, broken and buried face down under thorns and stones. Those measures closely match anti-revenant burial practice in Europe.1

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
1880
Described in colonial-era ethnography, including William Crooke's study of North Indian folklore (1894)
Tshimologo
South Asian
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal
Se se e bakang
Loso kgotsa phitlho e e sa siamang
A woman who dies in childbirth, in pregnancy or during ritual impurity, or by cruelty, returns.
O fetoga yone jang
Death in or around childbirth, or any unnatural death; in Bengal, dying unmarried or with desires unfulfilled.
E tsamaya jang
Go a farologana
Waits near trees and lonely places and leads men away into woods or hills.
Botlhale
E botlhale
Bokoa
  • filling the grave with thorns and piling stones on top
  • nailing or binding the fingers and toes with iron
  • breaking the legs, sewing the eyes shut with thorns and burying the body face down
  • sowing mustard seed along the funeral route
  • carrying the body out through a side door

E tlhagile la ntlha leng?

Lefatshe la bogologoloMotlha wa Bogare1500 go ya go 18991900 go ya go 19671968 go ya go 19992000 go ya go 20092010 go fitlha gompieno1880

Described in colonial-era ethnography, including William Crooke's study of North Indian folklore (1894)

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

Described as a 'demonical revenant' with a physical, monstrous body1

2

Her feet point backwards1

3

She can appear as a beautiful woman, behind which is a pot belly, claws and fangs1

4

She drains men's vitality so that they return aged, or kills them, starting with the youngest males of her own family1

5

The belief travelled with Indian indentured labourers to Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname1

A o ka e siela kgakala?

Setlhopha sa bonako go ya ka fa metswedi e e tlhalosang ka teng (go a farologana), e seng tekanyo.

Wena, o tsamaya mo e ka nnang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o taboga ka iketlo mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Churel mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho yo mogolo yo o itekanetseng a siana thata mo e ka nnang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele yo o bonako mo e ka nnang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Metswedi

  1. Churel - Wikipedia

Ntlha nngwe le nngwe mo tsebeng e e tswa mo metsweding e, e kwadilwe ka mafoko a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelele kwa [email protected].

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Dinaane tsa setso go tswa mo mafatsheng a le mangwe

VetalaHindu (Indian), 1070

Motlha o o tshwanang: 1500 go ya go 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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