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Örek

Sidoo kale loo yaqaan: örək, öräk
Khuraafaad iyo ugaarsiDhintaySixir

The örek is an animated corpse in the folklore of the Turkic peoples of the Volga region and Anatolia. It is a body raised by sorcery, described in the available accounts in terms very close to the modern zombie. The sources are thin and partly shaped by modern usage. It belongs with the hortlak and ubır in a Turkic family of risen dead.1

Dagaal geli
Asal
Turkic (Tatar, Bashkir, Turkish, Azerbaijani)
Ruush, Turkiga, Aserbayjaan
Waxa sababa
Sixir
A corpse brought back by magical means such as witchcraft.
Sida aad mid u noqotid
Raised by witchcraft.
Caqli
Maskax la'
qoraallada goobta

Waxa ilaha yidhaahdaan

1

In Tatar and Bashkir the word itself means 'soul' or 'ghost'1

2

Described as an animated corpse 'brought back to life' by magic1

3

Portrayed as mindless and hungry for human flesh1

4

Some communities held that a dead person could become one through the involvement of a girl dressed in white1

5

Listed alongside the hortlak in studies of Tatar mythology1

Ilaha

  1. Orek - Wikipedia

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Khuraafaad ka yimid dhulalkaas

UpiórSlavic, 1100HortlakTurkish and wider Turkic, 1550Zalozhnye pokoinikiEast Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian)MhachkayTatar and wider Turkic, 1833

Wax la mid ah

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