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Quỷ nhập tràng

A tún ń pè é ní: quy nhap trang, demon entering the corpse
Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu àti àròsọÒkúÓ ń sáréÀwọn ẹ̀mí èṣù tàbí ẹ̀mí búburú

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

Bá a jà
Orírun
Vietnamese
Vietnam
Ohun tó fà á
Àwọn ẹ̀mí èṣù tàbí ẹ̀mí búburú
An evil spirit takes over a newly dead body, classically when a black cat jumps over the corpse or coffin.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
A cat leaps over the body before burial; in another version spirits seize the body of someone weak and dying.
Bí ó ṣe ń rìn
Ó ń sáré
The corpse sits up or gets to its feet and chases the living.
Làákàyè
Làákàyè díẹ̀
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • never leaving the coffin unattended during the wake, so no cat can cross it
  • an exorcist, who drives the spirit out
àkọsílẹ̀ pápá

Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

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

Ṣé o lè sá fún un?

Ẹ̀ka ìyára láti bí àwọn orísun ṣe ṣàpèjúwe rẹ̀ (ó ń sáré), kì í ṣe ìwọ̀n.

Ìwọ, ní rírìn nǹkan bí 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ìwọ, ní eré òwúrọ̀ nǹkan bí 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Àgbàlagbà alágbára tó ń sáré nǹkan bí 24 km/h (15 mph)
Quỷ nhập tràng nǹkan bí 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ẹni tó ń gun kẹ̀kẹ́ lákọ̀ọ́kọ̀ nǹkan bí 37 km/h (23 mph)

Àwọn orísun

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

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