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Zombi (Haitian)

Gape e bidiwa: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre

Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE a kgokgoetsaBoloi1500 go ya go 1899

The zombi of Haitian folklore is a dead or seemingly dead person taken from the grave by a sorcerer and kept as a slave without will. The word comes from Central African languages, and the belief was shaped by the plantation slavery of colonial Haiti, where death was supposed to be the one escape from forced labour. Researchers have proposed drugs, mental illness and mistaken identity to explain reported cases, and none of these accounts is settled. This figure, a body that works and obeys but is no longer a person, is the origin of the word and the concept behind every later zombie.1 2

Di lwantshe

E kwadilwe la ntlha

1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

Tshimologo

Haitian (Vodou folklore)

Haiti

Se se e bakang

Boloi

A sorcerer (bokor) either raises a buried body by necromancy or captures the part of the soul that carries will and memory, leaving a controllable shell.

O fetoga yone jang

A bokor makes the victim appear to die, takes the body from the grave at night and holds its ti bon anj, the seat of will and personality.

E tsamaya jang

E a kgokgoetsa

Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.

Botlhale

E sena tlhaloganyo

Bokoa

salt or salt water, which is said to wake it or release it
preventive burial: laying the corpse face down, filling the mouth with earth or sewing the lips shut
sesame seeds scattered on the grave to keep the spirit counting

E tlhagile la ntlha leng?

Lefatshe la bogologolo Motlha wa Bogare 1500 go ya go 1899 1900 go ya go 1967 1968 go ya go 1999 2000 go ya go 2009 2010 go fitlha gompieno

1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others1 2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'1 2

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle1 2

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements1 2

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves1 2

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)1 2

A o ka e siela kgakala?

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

Zombi (Haitian) mo e ka nnang 3 km/h (1.9 mph)

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)

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

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

Dinaane tsa setso go tswa mo mafatsheng a le mangwe

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)Haitian, 1997

Motlha o o tshwanang: 1500 go ya go 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789

StrigoiRomanian, 1714

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725

AbhartachIrish, 1870

Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732

ChurelSouth Asian, 1880