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Kukudh

Ibuye libizwe: kukudhi, kukuvriq, karkanxholl
Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafi

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

Lwa nayo
Imvelaphi
Albanian
I-Albania
Okuyibangela
Okunye
The soul of a miser cannot leave his property; in another tradition it is a lugat that was not burned in time.
Indlela oba ngayo yinye
A miser dies and stays on to guard his house.
Izindawo ezibuthaka
  • strangling it with a noose made of vine
amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

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

Imithombo

  1. Kukudh - Wikipedia

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Phakela isixuku. Awukho ukukhangisa, awekho abalandeli, kukhokhwa umuntu oyedwa. Ithiphu igcina isayithi isebenza.Shiya ithiphu

Amasiko avela emazweni afanayo

LugatAlbanian

Okufana nalokhu

GhoulArabicPocongJavanese / Indonesian and MalayRo-langsTibetanToyolMalay and IndonesianXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)