Churel

Poznat i kao: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri

Folklor i mitoviNemrtavVariraLoša smrt ili pokop1500. – 1899.

The churel is the dangerous dead woman of South Asian folklore, the returned form of someone who died in childbirth or through ill-treatment. She seduces and destroys men, beginning with her own male relatives. The precautions taken against her are aimed squarely at the corpse: it is pinned, bound, broken and buried face down under thorns and stones. Those measures closely match anti-revenant burial practice in Europe.1

⚔️ Bori se protiv njega

Prvi zapis

1880

Described in colonial-era ethnography, including William Crooke's study of North Indian folklore (1894)

Podrijetlo

South Asian

Indija, Pakistan, Bangladeš, Nepal

Što ga uzrokuje

Loša smrt ili pokop

A woman who dies in childbirth, in pregnancy or during ritual impurity, or by cruelty, returns.

Kako postaješ jedan od njih

Death in or around childbirth, or any unnatural death; in Bengal, dying unmarried or with desires unfulfilled.

Kako se kreće

Varira

Waits near trees and lonely places and leads men away into woods or hills.

Inteligencija

Pametan

Slabe točke

filling the grave with thorns and piling stones on top
nailing or binding the fingers and toes with iron
breaking the legs, sewing the eyes shut with thorns and burying the body face down
sowing mustard seed along the funeral route
carrying the body out through a side door