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Toraja walking dead

A tún ń pè é ní: Ma'nene, walking corpses of Tana Toraja
Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu àti àròsọÒkúÓ ń ṣubú lọOṣó2000 sí 2009

The Toraja of Sulawesi keep their dead close: bodies are preserved, periodically exhumed and paraded in the Ma'nene rite. Around this real practice a story has grown that Torajan corpses can walk home under their own power. Scholars who work in the region say the story is a distortion, spread as Torajans living in cities post photographs of the ritual online. The case shows how a zombie legend can form in the present day around an unfamiliar funeral custom.1

Bá a jà
Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tí a kọ sílẹ̀
2009
The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual
Orírun
Torajan (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Indonesia
Ohun tó fà á
Oṣó
In the legend, the dead are made to walk back to their home villages.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
A person who dies away from home; in one telling, the fallen of an old war between West and East Toraja.
Bí ó ṣe ń rìn
Ó ń ṣubú lọ
Làákàyè
Aláìní làákàyè

Ìgbà wo ló kọ́kọ́ farahàn?

Ayé àtijọ́Sáà Àárín1500 sí 18991900 sí 19671968 sí 19992000 sí 20092010 títí di òní2009

The walking-corpse legend circulated online from 2009; it is attached to the much older Ma'nene ritual

àkọsílẹ̀ pápá

Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

1

In the Ma'nene ceremony families exhume mummified relatives, wash them, dress them in new clothes and walk them through the village1

2

A legend tells of defeated Torajan warriors whose corpses walked home1

3

Photographs of the ritual have repeatedly gone viral as 'real zombies'1

4

Anthropologist Kathleen Adams calls the walking-dead stories a corrupted version of what the ritual involves1

5

Fact-checkers have traced specific viral claims to misread photos of Ma'nene1

Ṣé o lè sá fún un?

Ẹ̀ka ìyára láti bí àwọn orísun ṣe ṣàpèjúwe rẹ̀ (ó ń ṣubú lọ), kì í ṣe ìwọ̀n.

Toraja walking dead nǹkan bí 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Ìwọ, ní rírìn nǹkan bí 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ìwọ, ní eré òwúrọ̀ nǹkan bí 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Àgbàlagbà alágbára tó ń sáré nǹkan bí 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ẹni tó ń gun kẹ̀kẹ́ lákọ̀ọ́kọ̀ nǹkan bí 37 km/h (23 mph)

Àwọn orísun

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