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Illustration of Toraja walking dead
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Ifayile No. 259 kwa-446

Toraja walking dead

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Ma'nene, walking corpses of Tana Toraja
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniIyarhuqaUbugqwirha2000 ukuya ku-2009

The Toraja of Sulawesi keep their dead close: bodies are preserved, periodically exhumed and paraded in the Ma'nene rite. Around this real practice a story has grown that Torajan corpses can walk home under their own power. Scholars who work in the region say the story is a distortion, spread as Torajans living in cities post photographs of the ritual online. The case shows how a zombie legend can form in the present day around an unfamiliar funeral custom.1

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
2009
The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual
Imvelaphi
Torajan (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
IIndonesia
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ubugqwirha
In the legend, the dead are made to walk back to their home villages.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A person who dies away from home; in one telling, the fallen of an old war between West and East Toraja.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyarhuqa
Ubukrelekrele
Ayinangqondo

Yavela nini okokuqala?

Ihlabathi lamanduloAmaxesha Aphakathi1500 ukuya ku-18991900 ukuya ku-19671968 ukuya ku-19992000 ukuya ku-20092010 ukuza kuthi ga namhlanje2009

The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual

amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

1

In the Ma'nene ceremony families exhume mummified relatives, wash them, dress them in new clothes and walk them through the village1

2

A legend tells of defeated Torajan warriors whose corpses walked home1

3

Photographs of the ritual have repeatedly gone viral as 'real zombies'1

4

Anthropologist Kathleen Adams calls the walking-dead stories a corrupted version of what the ritual involves1

5

Fact-checkers have traced specific viral claims to misread photos of Ma'nene1

Ungayigqitha ngokubaleka?

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

Toraja walking dead malunga ne-3 km/h (1.9 mph)
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)
Umkhweli webhayisikile okhawulezayo malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

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PocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayToyolMalay and IndonesianLangsuyarMalay, 1891
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