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Churel

別名: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri

伝承と神話アンデッドさまざま不幸な死や粗末な埋葬1500～1899年

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

⚔️ 戦う

最古の記録

1880

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

起源

South Asian

インド, パキスタン, バングラデシュ, ネパール

原因

不幸な死や粗末な埋葬

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

なり方

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

動き方

さまざま

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

知能

賢い

弱点

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