Corpo-seco

També anomenat: Corpo Seco, Dry Body

Folklore i miteMort viuUna maledicció

The Corpo-seco, or 'dry body', is a Brazilian revenant defined by rejection. Refused by heaven, hell and the soil, the desiccated corpse of a great sinner cannot remain buried and roams after dark. The legend works as moral instruction, above all about the treatment of parents. It is Brazil's best-known native walking corpse.1 2

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Origen

Brazilian

Brasil

Què el causa

Una maledicció

The dead man's sin was so great that neither God nor the devil will take the soul, and the earth itself throws the body out.

Com et converteixes en un

Someone who committed an unforgivable sin, in most tellings mistreating his own parents.

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Què diuen les fonts

Looks like a dried-out corpse, nothing but skin and bone1 2

Reported from Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and the north-east1 2

Told as a warning against abusing parents and disrespecting priests1 2

A version from Cambira in Paraná, dating from the 1950s, makes him a man who broke a vow to Our Lady of Aparecida1 2

There he flags down lorry drivers for a lift and vanishes at the site of his fatal accident1 2

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ToyolMalay and Indonesian

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