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Churel

又稱: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri

The churel is the dangerous dead woman of South Asian folklore, the returned form of someone who died in childbirth or through ill-treatment. She seduces and destroys men, beginning with her own male relatives. The precautions taken against her are aimed squarely at the corpse: it is pinned, bound, broken and buried face down under thorns and stones. Those measures closely match anti-revenant burial practice in Europe.1

來對戰

最早紀錄

1880

Described in colonial-era ethnography, including William Crooke's study of North Indian folklore (1894)

起源

South Asian

印度, 巴基斯坦, 孟加拉, 尼泊爾

成因

不得好死或下葬不當

A woman who dies in childbirth, in pregnancy or during ritual impurity, or by cruelty, returns.

如何變成它

Death in or around childbirth, or any unnatural death; in Bengal, dying unmarried or with desires unfulfilled.

移動方式

不一定

Waits near trees and lonely places and leads men away into woods or hills.

智力

聰明

弱點

filling the grave with thorns and piling stones on top
nailing or binding the fingers and toes with iron
breaking the legs, sewing the eyes shut with thorns and burying the body face down
sowing mustard seed along the funeral route
carrying the body out through a side door