Vetala
The vetala is a spirit of Indian tradition that animates corpses in the cremation ground. Unlike most walking dead it is highly intelligent: in the famous story cycle the corpse it inhabits outwits a king twenty-four times before warning him of a sorcerer's plot. The underlying idea, a dead body moved by something that is not its original owner, runs from Indian tantra to the Tibetan ro-langs. It gives South Asia a corpse-animating being centuries older than the Caribbean zombi.12
- chanting mantras
- performing its funeral rites, which releases it
यो पहिलो पटक कहिले देखा पर्यो?
1070The Vetala tales form part of the Kathasaritsagara, compiled no later than the 11th century
स्रोतले के भन्छन्
के तपाईं त्यसबाट दौडेर उम्कन सक्नुहुन्थ्यो?
स्रोतले वर्णन गरेको आधारमा गति वर्ग (फरक-फरक), मापन होइन।
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