
Vetala
The vetala is a spirit of Indian tradition that animates corpses in the cremation ground. Unlike most walking dead it is highly intelligent: in the famous story cycle the corpse it inhabits outwits a king twenty-four times before warning him of a sorcerer's plot. The underlying idea, a dead body moved by something that is not its original owner, runs from Indian tantra to the Tibetan ro-langs. It gives South Asia a corpse-animating being centuries older than the Caribbean zombi.12
- chanting mantras
- performing its funeral rites, which releases it
Kedu mgbe ọ pụtara nke mbụ?
The Vetala tales form part of the Kathasaritsagara, compiled no later than the 11th century
Ihe isi mmalite na-ekwu
Ị ga-agba ya ọsọ?
Klas ọsọ site n'otu isi mmalite si kọwaa (dị iche iche), ọ bụghị nha.
Isi mmalite
Eziokwu ọbụla n'ibe a si na isi mmalite ndị a, e dere ya n'okwu anyị. Ị hụrụ njehie? Gwa anyị na [email protected].