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Faele Nom. 435 ya 446

Quỷ nhập tràng

Gape e bidiwa: quy nhap trang, demon entering the corpse
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE a sianaBadimona kgotsa mewa e e bosula

Quỷ nhập tràng is the Vietnamese belief that a fresh corpse can be occupied by a malevolent spirit and get up. The standard trigger is a black cat jumping across the body, which is why Vietnamese wakes traditionally keep the coffin under constant watch. The risen dead is hungry, strange and hostile, and collapses into advanced decay once exorcised. It is Vietnam's native form of the reanimated corpse.12

Di lwantshe
Tshimologo
Vietnamese
Vietnam
Se se e bakang
Badimona kgotsa mewa e e bosula
An evil spirit takes over a newly dead body, classically when a black cat jumps over the corpse or coffin.
O fetoga yone jang
A cat leaps over the body before burial; in another version spirits seize the body of someone weak and dying.
E tsamaya jang
E a siana
The corpse sits up or gets to its feet and chases the living.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
  • never leaving the coffin unattended during the wake, so no cat can cross it
  • an exorcist, who drives the spirit out
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

The name describes a demon entering a corpse12

2

The possessed person may seem to have recovered and pass among the living for days12

3

It gives itself away by odd behaviour and a craving for raw blood or live animals12

4

When the spirit is expelled the body rots at once, as though dead for days12

5

Sceptics suggest the stories began with people wrongly declared dead who woke at their own funerals12

6

The same fear of cats near the dead occurs in Chinese jiangshi lore12

A o ka e siela kgakala?

Setlhopha sa bonako go ya ka fa metswedi e e tlhalosang ka teng (e a siana), 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)
Motho yo mogolo yo o itekanetseng a siana thata mo e ka nnang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Quỷ nhập tràng 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. Ghosts and demons in Vietnamese folklore - TheSmartLocal Vietnam
  2. Cat Over the Coffin - USC Digital Folklore Archives

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Tse dingwe tse di tshwanang

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