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Kukudh

Gape e bidiwa: kukudhi, kukuvriq, karkanxholl
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogileng

The kukudh is an Albanian revenant with two faces: the undead miser who will not leave his house, and a demon of epidemic disease. Nobody would spend a night in a dead miser's home for fear of it. The double meaning, corpse and plague at once, is the same association found in Greek, Slavic and English revenant lore. The name is probably connected with an Albanian word for lamenting.1

Di lwantshe
Tshimologo
Albanian
Albania
Se se e bakang
Tse dingwe
The soul of a miser cannot leave his property; in another tradition it is a lugat that was not burned in time.
O fetoga yone jang
A miser dies and stays on to guard his house.
Bokoa
  • strangling it with a noose made of vine
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

Pictured in some districts as a short, stocky man with a goat's tail1

2

Ordinary weapons do not harm it1

3

Only a brave boy can defeat it, and he is rewarded as its heir1

4

In southern Albania the same name is given to a blind female plague demon1

5

The related karkanxholl is a corpse that roams in January loaded with chains and breathing out death1

Metswedi

  1. Kukudh - 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

Dinaane tsa setso go tswa mo mafatsheng a le mangwe

LugatAlbanian

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