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Illustration of Quỷ nhập tràng
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Ifayela No. 435 kwangu-446

Quỷ nhập tràng

Ibuye libizwe: quy nhap trang, demon entering the corpse
Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafiIyagijimaAmadimoni noma imimoya emibi

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

Lwa nayo
Imvelaphi
Vietnamese
I-Vietnam
Okuyibangela
Amadimoni noma imimoya emibi
An evil spirit takes over a newly dead body, classically when a black cat jumps over the corpse or coffin.
Indlela oba ngayo yinye
A cat leaps over the body before burial; in another version spirits seize the body of someone weak and dying.
Indlela inyakaza ngayo
Iyagijima
The corpse sits up or gets to its feet and chases the living.
Ubuhlakani
Ubuhlakani obuthile
Izindawo ezibuthaka
  • never leaving the coffin unattended during the wake, so no cat can cross it
  • an exorcist, who drives the spirit out
amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

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

Ubungayidlula ngokugijima?

Isigaba sejubane esisuka ekuchazweni yimithombo (iyagijima), hhayi isilinganiso.

Wena, uhamba 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)
Quỷ nhập tràng cishe 24 km/h (15 mph)
Umgibeli webhayisikili osheshayo cishe 37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

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

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Okufana nalokhu

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