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Zombi (Haitian)

Ibuye libizwe: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre

Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafiUkubhakuzelaUbuthakathi1500 kuya ku-1899

The zombi of Haitian folklore is a dead or seemingly dead person taken from the grave by a sorcerer and kept as a slave without will. The word comes from Central African languages, and the belief was shaped by the plantation slavery of colonial Haiti, where death was supposed to be the one escape from forced labour. Researchers have proposed drugs, mental illness and mistaken identity to explain reported cases, and none of these accounts is settled. This figure, a body that works and obeys but is no longer a person, is the origin of the word and the concept behind every later zombie.1 2

Lwa nayo

Kuqoshwe kuqala

1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

Imvelaphi

Haitian (Vodou folklore)

I-Haiti

Okuyibangela

Ubuthakathi

A sorcerer (bokor) either raises a buried body by necromancy or captures the part of the soul that carries will and memory, leaving a controllable shell.

Indlela oba ngayo yinye

A bokor makes the victim appear to die, takes the body from the grave at night and holds its ti bon anj, the seat of will and personality.

Indlela inyakaza ngayo

Ukubhakuzela

Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.

Ubuhlakani

Abangenamqondo

Izindawo ezibuthaka

salt or salt water, which is said to wake it or release it
preventive burial: laying the corpse face down, filling the mouth with earth or sewing the lips shut
sesame seeds scattered on the grave to keep the spirit counting

Yaqala nini ukuvela?

Izwe lasendulo Ezikhathini Eziphakathi 1500 kuya ku-1899 1900 kuya ku-1967 1968 kuya ku-1999 2000 kuya ku-2009 2010 kuya namuhla

1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others1 2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'1 2

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle1 2

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements1 2

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves1 2

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)1 2

Ubungayidlula ngokugijima?

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

Zombi (Haitian) cishe 3 km/h (1.9 mph)

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)

Umgibeli webhayisikili osheshayo cishe 37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

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Amasiko avela emazweni afanayo

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)Haitian, 1997

Inkathi efanayo: 1500 kuya ku-1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789

StrigoiRomanian, 1714

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725

AbhartachIrish, 1870

Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732

ChurelSouth Asian, 1880