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Mhachkay

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Meçkey, Mäçkäy, Мәцкәй
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIyabaleka1500 ukuya ku-1899

The mhachkay is a Tatar and Turkic revenant explained by a double soul. The second soul stays in the dead body and sends it out to feed, typically as an owl. An Ottoman judge's report from Tarnovo in 1833 shows the belief acted on: two corpses were dug up, staked, scalded and finally burned. Its near-identity with the Slavic strzyga points to long exchange of undead lore between Turkic and Slavic neighbours.1

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1833
An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses
Imvelaphi
Tatar and wider Turkic
IRashiya, ITurkey, IBulgaria
Oko kuyibangelayo
Okunye
A person born with two hearts and two souls: at death one soul departs and the other revives the body.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
Being born with two souls; such people were expected to die young.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyabaleka
Flies at night in the shape of an owl and attacks travellers.
Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • beheading the corpse and burying the head apart from the body
  • burial face down with a sickle round the neck
  • burning, when stakes and boiling water failed (1833 case)

Yavela nini okokuqala?

Ihlabathi lamanduloAmaxesha Aphakathi1500 ukuya ku-18991900 ukuya ku-19671968 ukuya ku-19992000 ukuya ku-20092010 ukuza kuthi ga namhlanje1833

An Ottoman report of 1833 from Veliko Tarnovo, printed in the official gazette Takvim-i Vakayi, describes the staking and burning of two such corpses

amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

Sucks blood and eats the entrails of its victims1

2

Can be held off for a while with animal blood1

3

A person found in the woods with torn nails and fresh soil and blood on the hands was taken for one and driven away1

4

In the 1833 case the exhumed bodies of two former Janissaries were said to have grown, with longer hair and nails1

5

The description matches the Polish strzyga almost point for point1

Ungayigqitha ngokubaleka?

Udidi lwesantya ngokwendlela imithombo eyichaza ngayo (iyabaleka), asingomlinganiselo.

Wena, uhamba malunga ne-5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, ujoga malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Umntu omdala osempilweni ebaleka ngamandla malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Mhachkay malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Umkhweli webhayisikile okhawulezayo malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

  1. Mhachkay - Wikipedia

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Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)ÖrekTurkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)

Ixesha elinye: 1500 ukuya ku-1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
Yondla umkhosiShiya ithiphu