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Hortlak

Известен още като: hortdan, xortdan, cadı, obur

Hortlak is the everyday Turkish word for a dead person who climbs back out of the grave. Ottoman judges and muftis were asked to rule on such cases from at least the 16th century and authorised staking or burning the bodies, much as Christian authorities did in the Balkans. Related figures appear among the Azerbaijanis (xortdan) and Tatars. The tradition shows that the walking-corpse panic of south-eastern Europe was shared across the religious frontier.12

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Първо записване
1550
Cases involving hortlaks appear in Ottoman kadı court records from the mid-16th century
Произход
Turkish and wider Turkic
Турция, Азербайджан
Какво го причинява
Никога обяснено
The dead person does not stay dead; Ottoman usage often attributes this to the deceased having been a witch (cadı).
Как ставаш такъв
A corpse that fails to decay in the grave, often that of a reputed witch or sorcerer.
Интелект
Малко интелект
Слаби места
  • a stake through the heart or body
  • burning
  • decapitation
  • quicklime poured on the corpse
  • throwing the body into a river

Кога се появява за първи път?

Древният свят
Средновековие
1500–1899
1900–1967
1968–1999
2000–2009
2010 до днес
1550

Cases involving hortlaks appear in Ottoman kadı court records from the mid-16th century

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Какво казват източниците

1

The name comes from the Turkish verb hortlamak, to come up out of the grave12

2

The traveller Evliya Çelebi defined obur as witches, sorcerers and those who rise from their graves12

3

Ottoman fatwas permitted exhuming and destroying corpses that returned to trouble the living12

4

Risen cadıs were blamed for throwing stones, moving objects and possessing animals12

5

In 1826 former Janissaries at Tırnova were publicly branded as risen dead, a case historians read as political12

Източници

  1. Hortdan - Wikipedia
  2. Vampires in Turkish Culture - KÜRE Encyclopedia

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Същата епоха: 1500–1899