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Nyongo working dead
Também chamado: nyongo, ekongi, kupe, Mount Kupe zombies
Nyongo is a Cameroonian witchcraft belief in which the newly rich are suspected of killing their kin by occult means and putting them to work as the living dead. The victims toil unseen on Mount Kupe, in Bakossi country, to build their owner's fortune. Anthropologists link the belief to colonial plantation agriculture and, later, to economic crisis. It is one of the best-studied African parallels to the Haitian zombi, and like it turns on the theft of a dead person's labour.123
Primeiro registo
1950
Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950sOrigem
Cameroonian (Bakweri, Bakossi and neighbouring peoples)
CamarõesO que o causa
Feitiçaria
Members of a secret witch society are believed to 'sell' relatives, who seem to die but are taken from the grave to work.Como te tornas um
A nyongo member makes a relative appear to die, then removes the person from the grave.
Inteligência
Sem cérebro
Pontos fracos
- witch-finding: villages paid the witch-hunter Obasi Njom to cleanse them
- suspected members were beheaded or buried face down so they would not rise as ekongi
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1950Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s
notas de campo
O que dizem as fontes
Fontes
- Nyongo society - Wikipedia
- Vivian Besem Ojong, 'The Working-Dead in Nyongo Occult Economy in Cameroonian Society', Journal of Dharma 37 (2012)
- Zombies - Encyclopedia.com
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Amalanhig
Felicia Felix-Mentor