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Crew of the Caleuche

Ibuye libizwe: El Caleuche, Buque de Arte
Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafiKuyagxumaUbuthakathi1500 kuya ku-1899

The Caleuche is the phantom ship of the Chiloé archipelago in southern Chile. Its crew is recruited from the drowned, who are revived to serve aboard for ever, in some tellings as contented sailors and in others as maimed and mindless slaves of the island's sorcerers. The twisted, hopping crewmen resemble the imbunche, another creature of Chilote witchcraft. It is South America's clearest folklore of the dead put back to work.1

Lwa nayo
Kuqoshwe kuqala
1896
Described by Chilean writers from the 1890s, among them Darío Cavada (1896)
Imvelaphi
Chilote (Chiloé, Chile)
I-Chile
Okuyibangela
Ubuthakathi
The drowned are gathered up and given a second life aboard an enchanted ship.
Indlela oba ngayo yinye
A sailor drowns in the channels of Chiloé and is taken aboard by the sea spirit Pincoya or by the ship itself.
Indlela inyakaza ngayo
Kuyagxuma
In one account each crewman has a leg bent backwards against his spine and has to hop.
Ubuhlakani
Abangenamqondo

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1896

Described by Chilean writers from the 1890s, among them Darío Cavada (1896)

amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

1

The Caleuche is a brilliantly lit ghost ship that appears at night to the sound of music1

2

In a common version its crew are dead, enslaved sailors1

3

They are deliberately kept as forgetful idiots so that they cannot betray the ship's secrets1

4

Their hands are said to be very cold1

5

The ship is also the vessel of Chiloé's sorcerers, the brujos1

6

The legend may go back to a Dutch ship lost in the region in the early 1600s1

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Wena, uhamba cishe 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Crew of the Caleuche cishe 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, ugijima kancane cishe 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Umuntu omdala olungile egijima ngamandla cishe 24 km/h (15 mph)
Umgibeli webhayisikili osheshayo cishe 37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

  1. Caleuche - Wikipedia

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Inkathi efanayo: 1500 kuya ku-1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732