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Kayit No. 436 ci 446

Ro-langs

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatDafay doxantuSeytaane walla rab yu bon

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

Xeexal ko
Cosaan
Tibetan
Siin
Lan moo ko waral
Seytaane walla rab yu bon
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
Naka ngay doone benn
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
Naka lay yëngoo
Dafay doxantu
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Xel
Amul xel
Fi mu néewe doole
  • 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
notu gëstu

Li sours yi wax

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

Ndax mën nga ko raw ci daw?

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

Ro-langs lu tollu ci 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
Ku gaaw ci welo lu tollu ci 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sours yi

  1. Ro-langs - Wikipedia

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