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Illustration of Hooh-Strah-Dooh
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Ifayile No. 426 kwa-446

Hooh-Strah-Dooh

Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIidemoni okanye imimoya emdaka

The Hooh-Strah-Dooh is a corpse-possessing spirit of the Wyandot people. It animates the dead in order to eat the living. The record is brief. It is nonetheless a clear instance of a flesh-eating reanimated corpse in a Native North American tradition.1

Yiphose edabini
Imvelaphi
Wyandot (Huron)
IMelika, IKhanada
Oko kuyibangelayo
Iidemoni okanye imimoya emdaka
A spirit enters dead bodies and uses them.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A corpse is taken over by the spirit.
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • redbud, used as a ward
amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

Described as a spirit that inhabits corpses1

2

It uses the bodies to devour the living1

3

Redbud was believed to keep it away1

4

Listed among North American vampire-like beings in comparative surveys1

5

Little else about it is recorded in the source consulted1

Imithombo

  1. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

TupilaqGreenlandic InuitSkadegamutcWabanaki (Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki)

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GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)
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