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Illustration of Kozlak
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Kozlak

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: kuzlac, kozlak
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniUkufa okubi okanye ukungcwatywa kakubi

The kozlak is a Dalmatian revenant, the returned corpse of someone who died after a sinful life. It haunts crossroads and burial grounds and is put down with a stake. The record in the source consulted is short. It is one of several regional names for the walking dead along the eastern Adriatic.1

Yiphose edabini
Imvelaphi
Dalmatian (Croatian)
ICroatia
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ukufa okubi okanye ukungcwatywa kakubi
The recently dead who lived sinfully come back.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A sinful life.
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • a stake
amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

Known in Dalmatia on the Adriatic coast1

2

It is the recently dead, not the long buried, who return1

3

Associated with crossroads as well as cemeteries1

4

Killed by staking1

5

Listed alongside the mora, a female blood-drinker of the same region1

Imithombo

  1. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725Jure GrandoIstrian (Croatian), 1672PijavicaSlovene and Croatian

Ezinye ezifana nale

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