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Illustration of Ro-langs
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Fayl No. 436 diga 446

Ro-langs

Wi'aama fahin: རོ་ལངས, rolang, Tibetan zombie
Haala e tuugnorgalMaayɓe yaaɗooɓeÑaaɓotoSeytaane walla ruuhuuji bonɗi

The ro-langs is the Tibetan walking corpse. One kind is raised deliberately by a tantric practitioner for occult ends; the other is a body hijacked by a demon and spreads its condition by touch, in stories where a whole community is infected in a night. It is stiff, mute and has to be physically broken to be stopped. The combination of contagion by contact and a mindless, lurching body makes it one of the closest folkloric matches for the modern film zombie.1

Haɓdu e mo
Ƴiiɗal
Tibetan
Siin
Ko waɗi ɗum
Seytaane walla ruuhuuji bonɗi
Either a sorcerer raises the corpse by tantric rite, or a spirit (gdon or bgegs) slips into the body before the funeral.
No a wonata gooto
A touch on the head from a ro-langs turns the victim into another.
No ɗum yaaɗi
Ñaaɓoto
It cannot bend at the waist or any joint, so it lurches forward stiff-limbed with its arms held straight.
Hakkiilo
Walaa hakkiilo
Ñaawooje
  • low doorways, since it cannot stoop
  • breaking the skin, drawing blood, cutting the flesh or breaking a bone, according to its type
  • striking the single mole that is the only weak point of the 'mole' type
winndaa ɗo nokku

Ko sorsi ɗin mbi'i

1

The name means 'risen corpse'1

2

It cannot speak and signals by wagging its tongue from side to side1

3

Tradition lists five types, named for what must be damaged to stop them: skin, blood, flesh, bone and mole1

4

It cannot be killed, only made to 'fall over'1

5

Old Tibetan houses are said to have been built with low door frames to keep it out1

6

Wylie noted that some 'risen' dead in the stories were probably people waking from coma1

A waawan daanaade mo?

Ngesa yaawngo ko sorsi ɗin kaalata (ñaaɓoto), wanaa ko hakkundirdaa.

Ro-langs ɗon 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
An, a yaaɗi ɗon 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
An, a ɗawi gaynaako ɗon 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Gooto bote mo tiiɗi, wa'i ko yaawɗo ɗon 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mbaaleejo ngaɗa yaawɗo ɗon 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sorsi

  1. Ro-langs - Wikipedia

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