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South African witchcraft zombie

又称: xidachane, maduxwane, witch-train zombies

In parts of South Africa, witchcraft belief includes people turned into zombies to labour for a witch. The victims are thought of as the stolen dead: small, mute and put to work at night. Stories of 'witch trains' staffed by zombies spread once railways began carrying migrant workers to the mines and cities. Scholars treat the belief as a commentary on labour exploitation, which is the same anxiety that produced the Haitian zombi.1 2

和它战斗

起源

South African (Tsonga, Sotho, Venda)

南非

成因是什么

巫术

A witch kills the victim, or makes them seem to die, and takes control of the body for forced labour.

你如何变成它

A witch's spell; in some accounts even a small child can zombify a dead person.

智力

没脑子

弱点

a sufficiently powerful sangoma (traditional healer) can break the spell

田野笔记

资料怎么说

Called xidachane in Sotho and Tsonga and maduxwane in Venda1 2

Imagined as shrunken in size, with the tongue cut out so that it cannot speak or protest1 2

Witch trains, ordinary-looking trains crewed by zombies, were said to abduct people at night1 2

Passengers were either zombified or beaten and thrown off far from home1 2

Anthropologist Isak Niehaus reads the belief as a picture of migrant labour and domination1 2

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South African witchcraft zombie

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