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Hortlak

Gape e bidiwa: hortdan, xortdan, cadı, obur
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogileng1500 go ya go 1899

Hortlak is the everyday Turkish word for a dead person who climbs back out of the grave. Ottoman judges and muftis were asked to rule on such cases from at least the 16th century and authorised staking or burning the bodies, much as Christian authorities did in the Balkans. Related figures appear among the Azerbaijanis (xortdan) and Tatars. The tradition shows that the walking-corpse panic of south-eastern Europe was shared across the religious frontier.12

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
1550
Cases involving hortlaks appear in Ottoman kadı court records from the mid-16th century
Tshimologo
Turkish and wider Turkic
Turkey, Azerbaijan
Se se e bakang
Ga go a tlhalosiwa le ka motlha
The dead person does not stay dead; Ottoman usage often attributes this to the deceased having been a witch (cadı).
O fetoga yone jang
A corpse that fails to decay in the grave, often that of a reputed witch or sorcerer.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
  • a stake through the heart or body
  • burning
  • decapitation
  • quicklime poured on the corpse
  • throwing the body into a river

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 gompieno1550

Cases involving hortlaks appear in Ottoman kadı court records from the mid-16th century

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

The name comes from the Turkish verb hortlamak, to come up out of the grave12

2

The traveller Evliya Çelebi defined obur as witches, sorcerers and those who rise from their graves12

3

Ottoman fatwas permitted exhuming and destroying corpses that returned to trouble the living12

4

Risen cadıs were blamed for throwing stones, moving objects and possessing animals12

5

In 1826 former Janissaries at Tırnova were publicly branded as risen dead, a case historians read as political12

Metswedi

  1. Hortdan - Wikipedia
  2. Vampires in Turkish Culture - KÜRE Encyclopedia

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

MhachkayTatar and wider Turkic, 1833ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

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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