Corpo-seco

Ibuye libizwe: Corpo Seco, Dry Body

Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafiIsiqalekiso

The Corpo-seco, or 'dry body', is a Brazilian revenant defined by rejection. Refused by heaven, hell and the soil, the desiccated corpse of a great sinner cannot remain buried and roams after dark. The legend works as moral instruction, above all about the treatment of parents. It is Brazil's best-known native walking corpse.1 2

⚔️ Lwa nayo

Imvelaphi

Brazilian

I-Brazil

Okuyibangela

Isiqalekiso

The dead man's sin was so great that neither God nor the devil will take the soul, and the earth itself throws the body out.

Indlela oba ngayo yinye

Someone who committed an unforgivable sin, in most tellings mistreating his own parents.

amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

Looks like a dried-out corpse, nothing but skin and bone1 2

Reported from Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and the north-east1 2

Told as a warning against abusing parents and disrespecting priests1 2

A version from Cambira in Paraná, dating from the 1950s, makes him a man who broke a vow to Our Lady of Aparecida1 2

There he flags down lorry drivers for a lift and vanishes at the site of his fatal accident1 2

Imithombo

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Okufana nalokhu

GhoulArabic

PocongJavanese / Indonesian and Malay

Ro-langsTibetan

ToyolMalay and Indonesian

Xiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)

CondenadoAndean (Peru and Bolivia)