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Faele Nom. 420 ya 446

Corpo-seco

Gape e bidiwa: Corpo Seco, Dry Body
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengPhutso

The Corpo-seco, or 'dry body', is a Brazilian revenant defined by rejection. Refused by heaven, hell and the soil, the desiccated corpse of a great sinner cannot remain buried and roams after dark. The legend works as moral instruction, above all about the treatment of parents. It is Brazil's best-known native walking corpse.12

Di lwantshe
Tshimologo
Brazilian
Brasil
Se se e bakang
Phutso
The dead man's sin was so great that neither God nor the devil will take the soul, and the earth itself throws the body out.
O fetoga yone jang
Someone who committed an unforgivable sin, in most tellings mistreating his own parents.
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

Looks like a dried-out corpse, nothing but skin and bone12

2

Reported from Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and the north-east12

3

Told as a warning against abusing parents and disrespecting priests12

4

A version from Cambira in Paraná, dating from the 1950s, makes him a man who broke a vow to Our Lady of Aparecida12

5

There he flags down lorry drivers for a lift and vanishes at the site of his fatal accident12

Metswedi

  1. Lenda do Corpo-seco - Toda Matéria
  2. Revenant - 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].

Fepa letshwititi. Ga go na dipapatso, ga go na dilatedi, e duelelwa ke motho a le mongwe. Madi a tebogo a e boloka e le mo inthaneteng.Tlogela madi a tebogo

Tse dingwe tse di tshwanang

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
Fepa letshwititiTlogela madi a tebogo