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Toraja walking dead

Gape e bidiwa: Ma'nene, walking corpses of Tana Toraja
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE a kgokgoetsaBoloi2000 go ya go 2009

The Toraja of Sulawesi keep their dead close: bodies are preserved, periodically exhumed and paraded in the Ma'nene rite. Around this real practice a story has grown that Torajan corpses can walk home under their own power. Scholars who work in the region say the story is a distortion, spread as Torajans living in cities post photographs of the ritual online. The case shows how a zombie legend can form in the present day around an unfamiliar funeral custom.1

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
2009
The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual
Tshimologo
Torajan (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Indonesia
Se se e bakang
Boloi
In the legend, the dead are made to walk back to their home villages.
O fetoga yone jang
A person who dies away from home; in one telling, the fallen of an old war between West and East Toraja.
E tsamaya jang
E a kgokgoetsa
Botlhale
E sena tlhaloganyo

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 gompieno2009

The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

In the Ma'nene ceremony families exhume mummified relatives, wash them, dress them in new clothes and walk them through the village1

2

A legend tells of defeated Torajan warriors whose corpses walked home1

3

Photographs of the ritual have repeatedly gone viral as 'real zombies'1

4

Anthropologist Kathleen Adams calls the walking-dead stories a corrupted version of what the ritual involves1

5

Fact-checkers have traced specific viral claims to misread photos of Ma'nene1

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.

Toraja walking dead 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. Did an Indonesian Woman Come Out of Her Grave? - Snopes

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PocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayToyolMalay and IndonesianLangsuyarMalay, 1891
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