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Kukudh

A tún ń pè é ní: kukudhi, kukuvriq, karkanxholl
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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

Bá a jà
Orírun
Albanian
Albania
Ohun tó fà á
Òmíràn
The soul of a miser cannot leave his property; in another tradition it is a lugat that was not burned in time.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
A miser dies and stays on to guard his house.
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • strangling it with a noose made of vine
àkọsílẹ̀ pápá

Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

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

Àwọn orísun

  1. Kukudh - Wikipedia

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