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Ro-langs

Gape e bidiwa: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE a kgokgoetsaBadimona kgotsa mewa e e bosula

The ro-langs is the Tibetan walking corpse. One kind is raised deliberately by a tantric practitioner for occult ends; the other is a body hijacked by a demon and spreads its condition by touch, in stories where a whole community is infected in a night. It is stiff, mute and has to be physically broken to be stopped. The combination of contagion by contact and a mindless, lurching body makes it one of the closest folkloric matches for the modern film zombie.1

Di lwantshe
Tshimologo
Tibetan
China
Se se e bakang
Badimona kgotsa mewa e e bosula
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
O fetoga yone jang
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
E tsamaya jang
E a kgokgoetsa
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Botlhale
E sena tlhaloganyo
Bokoa
  • low doorways, since it cannot stoop
  • breaking the skin, drawing blood, cutting the flesh or breaking a bone, according to its type
  • striking the single mole that is the only weak point of the 'mole' type
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

The name means 'risen corpse'1

2

It cannot speak and signals by wagging its tongue from side to side1

3

Tradition lists five types, named for what must be damaged to stop them: skin, blood, flesh, bone and mole1

4

It cannot be killed, only made to 'fall over'1

5

Old Tibetan houses are said to have been built with low door frames to keep it out1

6

Wylie noted that some 'risen' dead in the stories were probably people waking from coma1

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.

Ro-langs 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

  1. Ro-langs - 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].

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Dinaane tsa setso go tswa mo mafatsheng a le mangwe

JiangshiChinese, 1789Xiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)

Tse dingwe tse di tshwanang

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayToyolMalay and IndonesianCondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)Corpo-secoBrazilianDearg DueIrish (modern legend)
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