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Kayit No. 435 ci 446

Quỷ nhập tràng

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: quy nhap trang, demon entering the corpse
Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatDafay dawSeytaane walla rab yu bon

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

Xeexal ko
Cosaan
Vietnamese
Wietnaam
Lan moo ko waral
Seytaane walla rab yu bon
An evil spirit takes over a newly dead body, classically when a black cat jumps over the corpse or coffin.
Naka ngay doone benn
A cat leaps over the body before burial; in another version spirits seize the body of someone weak and dying.
Naka lay yëngoo
Dafay daw
The corpse sits up or gets to its feet and chases the living.
Xel
Am na tuuti xel
Fi mu néewe doole
  • never leaving the coffin unattended during the wake, so no cat can cross it
  • an exorcist, who drives the spirit out
notu gëstu

Li sours yi wax

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

Ndax mën nga ko raw ci daw?

Gaawaay bi jóge ci ni sours yi ko melale (dafay daw), du natt.

Yow, ci dox lu tollu ci 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Yow, ci daw ndànk lu tollu ci 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Mag bu am doole buy daw lu gaaw lool lu tollu ci 24 km/h (15 mph)
Quỷ nhập tràng lu tollu ci 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ku gaaw ci welo lu tollu ci 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sours yi

  1. Ghosts and demons in Vietnamese folklore - TheSmartLocal Vietnam
  2. Cat Over the Coffin - USC Digital Folklore Archives

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