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Illustration of South African witchcraft zombie
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South African witchcraft zombie

Diğer adı: xidachane, maduxwane, witch-train zombies
Folklor ve mitlerÖlümsüzBüyücülük

In parts of South Africa, witchcraft belief includes people turned into zombies to labour for a witch. The victims are thought of as the stolen dead: small, mute and put to work at night. Stories of 'witch trains' staffed by zombies spread once railways began carrying migrant workers to the mines and cities. Scholars treat the belief as a commentary on labour exploitation, which is the same anxiety that produced the Haitian zombi.12

Onunla dövüş
Köken
South African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)
Güney Afrika
Nedeni ne
Büyücülük
A witch kills the victim, or makes them seem to die, and takes control of the body for forced labour.
Nasıl biri olunur
A witch's spell; in some accounts even a small child can zombify a dead person.
Zekâ
Akılsız
Zayıf noktalar
  • a sufficiently powerful sangoma (traditional healer) can break the spell
saha notları

Kaynaklar ne diyor

1

Called xidachane in Sotho and Tsonga and maduxwane in Venda12

2

Imagined as shrunken in size, with the tongue cut out so that it cannot speak or protest12

3

Witch trains, ordinary-looking trains crewed by zombies, were said to abduct people at night12

4

Passengers were either zombified or beaten and thrown off far from home12

5

Anthropologist Isak Niehaus reads the belief as a picture of migrant labour and domination12

Kaynaklar

  1. Zombie - Wikipedia
  2. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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