Churel

همدارنګه ورته ویل کېږي: chudail, churail, petni, shakchunni, pichal peri

لوک‌داستان او افسانهنه‌مړبدلېږيبد مرګ یا بد خاورو ته سپارنه۱۵۰۰ تر ۱۸۹۹

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

⚔️ ورسره جګړه وکړئ

لومړی ځل ثبت شو

1880

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

اصل

South Asian

هند, پاکستان, بنګله‌دېش, نیپال

څه یې لامل کېږي

بد مرګ یا بد خاورو ته سپارنه

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

تاسو څنګه یو کېږئ

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

څنګه خوځي

بدلېږي

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

هوښیارتیا

هوښیار

کمزوري ټکي

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