ZombieWiki
Zombie Wiki / Zonke iizombie / Iintsomi zemveli namabali amandulo
Illustration of Kukudh
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Ifayile No. 429 kwa-446

Kukudh

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: kukudhi, kukuvriq, karkanxholl
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeni

The kukudh is an Albanian revenant with two faces: the undead miser who will not leave his house, and a demon of epidemic disease. Nobody would spend a night in a dead miser's home for fear of it. The double meaning, corpse and plague at once, is the same association found in Greek, Slavic and English revenant lore. The name is probably connected with an Albanian word for lamenting.1

Yiphose edabini
Imvelaphi
Albanian
IAlbania
Oko kuyibangelayo
Okunye
The soul of a miser cannot leave his property; in another tradition it is a lugat that was not burned in time.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A miser dies and stays on to guard his house.
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • strangling it with a noose made of vine
amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

Pictured in some districts as a short, stocky man with a goat's tail1

2

Ordinary weapons do not harm it1

3

Only a brave boy can defeat it, and he is rewarded as its heir1

4

In southern Albania the same name is given to a blind female plague demon1

5

The related karkanxholl is a corpse that roams in January loaded with chains and breathing out death1

Imithombo

  1. Kukudh - Wikipedia

Yonke inyaniso ekweli phepha ivela kule mithombo, ibhalwe ngamazwi ethu. Ubone impazamo? Sixelele ku-[email protected].

Yondla umkhosi. Akukho zintengiso, akukho zilandeli, ihlawulelwa ngumntu omnye. Ithiphu iyigcina ikwi-intanethi.Shiya ithiphu

Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

LugatAlbanian

Ezinye ezifana nale

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