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Illustration of Quỷ nhập tràng
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Ifayile No. 435 kwa-446

Quỷ nhập tràng

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: quy nhap trang, demon entering the corpse
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIyabalekaIidemoni okanye imimoya emdaka

Quỷ nhập tràng is the Vietnamese belief that a fresh corpse can be occupied by a malevolent spirit and get up. The standard trigger is a black cat jumping across the body, which is why Vietnamese wakes traditionally keep the coffin under constant watch. The risen dead is hungry, strange and hostile, and collapses into advanced decay once exorcised. It is Vietnam's native form of the reanimated corpse.12

Yiphose edabini
Imvelaphi
Vietnamese
IVietnam
Oko kuyibangelayo
Iidemoni okanye imimoya emdaka
An evil spirit takes over a newly dead body, classically when a black cat jumps over the corpse or coffin.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A cat leaps over the body before burial; in another version spirits seize the body of someone weak and dying.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyabaleka
The corpse sits up or gets to its feet and chases the living.
Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • never leaving the coffin unattended during the wake, so no cat can cross it
  • an exorcist, who drives the spirit out
amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

The name describes a demon entering a corpse12

2

The possessed person may seem to have recovered and pass among the living for days12

3

It gives itself away by odd behaviour and a craving for raw blood or live animals12

4

When the spirit is expelled the body rots at once, as though dead for days12

5

Sceptics suggest the stories began with people wrongly declared dead who woke at their own funerals12

6

The same fear of cats near the dead occurs in Chinese jiangshi lore12

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)
Quỷ nhập tràng malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Umkhweli webhayisikile okhawulezayo malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

  1. Ghosts and demons in Vietnamese folklore - TheSmartLocal Vietnam
  2. Cat Over the Coffin - USC Digital Folklore Archives

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