第072号档案，共446份
Nyongo working dead
又称: 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
首次记载
1950
Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s起源
Cameroonian (Bakweri, Bakossi and neighbouring peoples)
喀麦隆成因是什么
巫术
Members of a secret witch society are believed to 'sell' relatives, who seem to die but are taken from the grave to work.你如何变成它
A nyongo member makes a relative appear to die, then removes the person from the grave.
智力
没脑子
弱点
- 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
它最早是什么时候出现的？
古代世界
中世纪
1500至1899年
1900至1967年
1968至1999年
2000至2009年
2010年至今
1950Legends current from around the Second World War; first described by the anthropologist Edwin Ardener in the 1950s
田野笔记
Amalanhig
Felicia Felix-Mentor