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Örek

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: örək, öräk
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniUbugqwirha

The örek is an animated corpse in the folklore of the Turkic peoples of the Volga region and Anatolia. It is a body raised by sorcery, described in the available accounts in terms very close to the modern zombie. The sources are thin and partly shaped by modern usage. It belongs with the hortlak and ubır in a Turkic family of risen dead.1

Yiphose edabini
Imvelaphi
Turkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)
IRashiya, ITurkey, IAzerbaijan
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ubugqwirha
A corpse brought back by magical means such as witchcraft.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
Raised by witchcraft.
Ubukrelekrele
Ayinangqondo
amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

In Tatar and Bashkir the word itself means 'soul' or 'ghost'1

2

Described as an animated corpse 'brought back to life' by magic1

3

Portrayed as mindless and hungry for human flesh1

4

Some communities held that a dead person could become one through the involvement of a girl dressed in white1

5

Listed alongside the hortlak in studies of Tatar mythology1

Imithombo

  1. Orek - Wikipedia

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Iintsomi zemveli ezivela kumazwe afanayo

UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)MhachkayTatar and wider Turkic, 1833

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