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Yes, in the local mythology there was a place for such a popular Western filmmakers are evil, like zombies. According to beliefs Yakut people, there are two types of zombies: these are Juers and grassroots.
In the local yellow press, articles appear from time to time with headings like “Yuer – a creepy Yakut zombie!”. From this one can conclude that this species is better known to residents Republic of Sakha. However on the classic revived dead man from Hollywood horror movie is exactly like a bullshit. We will tell you briefly to you about those and other supernatural entities.
Yuer
Huer is essentially not a living dead, but an undead spirit. Yakuts believe that after the death of a person his spirit in a certain they ask a moment: does he intend to go to another world or wants to stay among people?
The vast majority agrees to leave, but there are those who for one reason or another is not ready to leave Mother Earth and therefore responds with a refusal. Then this spirit is stripped of skin from the face, break their neck, turn their heads face back and send him to the world alive. By the way, they do this with suicides without asking, since the attitude to them in the Yakut religion is almost more tougher than in Christianity.
The disfigured spirit, returning to the middle world, huddles in abandoned houses, animal burrows and caves near the place, where he left the body. Sunlight hurts him, and people invariably scare and cause hatred. He is constantly cold and bad, therefore, no matter how much the spirit is attached to our world, he soon begins to deeply regret his choice. When is the spirit embittered to the limit and ready, overpowering his fear, pounce on the first comer, he becomes yuer. However with the classic zombies this entity has little in common. She looks more like an abasy (evil spirit), and the abasas are quite strong, capable of harming to a living person, or even kill him.
Huer, however, is not eternal. After a few decades or even centuries, it seems to dissipate, losing its strength and material appearance. Yakut myths do not say that then happens to an unhappy soul, however many believe that after of all torment, however, she leaves our world and rushes to other dimensions where she should have gone initially.
Deretnik
As for the brood, this is the real revived dead man, obsessed with evil forces. Some become suicides, people killed by strong Abasas, as well as predatory shamans bequeathing their bodies after death to various demons and other otherworldly creatures.
Deretnik cannot speak clearly, decomposes on the go, twitches convulsively, does not feel pain and wants only one thing – absorb human flesh. It is distinguished from most screen zombies remarkable strength and ability to move quickly, almost run. A person turns into a trapper within a day after of your death, and the only way to prevent this transformation – to bury the body in time properly.
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Is it easy to deal with a zombie deeretnik
Here is one famous story involving a deeretnik. A business occurred in Soviet times. Two Yakut hunters went deep into the taiga and got lost in an unfamiliar area. It was summer, twilight came late, and the men decided not to sleep under the open sky and look for access to the road. However closer to they wandered into the thicket at midnight, and then one of the friends said there was something wrong in this place … He was always sensitive to all sorts of anomalies and as if he even had in his family the shaman.
The man did not have time to explain anything, because of the trees a shaggy humanoid creature popped up two meters tall and attacked him: tumbled to the ground and bit sharp as razor, teeth shoulder. The second hunter was not at a loss and immediately threw up gun. Wounded by buckshot in the head, a terrible creature screeched and literally dissolved in air.
The hunter rushed to his friend, but he forbade him to come. He said that he feels near death, but even worse is that after it will surely turn into a dodger and become dangerous.
– Don’t be silly, somehow we get to the road, and there we catch a car and take you to the hospital. Everything will be alright, – encouraged wounded comrade.
But the veins on his head were already swollen, his eyes reddened, and his skin became whiter than snow. On their last legs, the unfortunate said to a friend:
– Listen to me very carefully and do exactly as I do I will say. After my death, cut off my head. Bury me right on this place, as deep as possible underground. No stones and crosses do not. Lay my body on my stomach and place the severed head between your legs, but first push the earth into your mouth. After that livelier go away.
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Having uttered this terrible instruction, the poor man gave his soul to God. For an hour, his friend tried to approach the corpse, but never his hand rose to abuse the lifeless body. In the end finally he dug a shallow hole, put the dead man in it up, buried it, hung a bright flap of fabric on a nearby tree, to subsequently find this place, and hastened to hide.
… He walked for several hours, dawn was already approaching. Suddenly Behind the branches crunched, as if someone was rushing in the footsteps of a hunter. That stopped, loaded a double-barreled shotgun and measured it: jumped out from behind the bushes friend buried by him the other day – all in the earth, with disheveled hair, dark spots on the skin and empty, motionless eyes. Alas, the dying man’s prediction came true, he really became clerk! ..
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The zombie saw a man and rushed at him, growling and clattering his teeth, like a wolf. The hunter didn’t miss this time either, with a well-aimed shot demolished the man’s head. But what is it? .. and headless, zombie continued to break through the thicket. Only a second shot in the chest shot down him down. Reloading his gun twice, the hunter shot hands and feet to the cadre, then dug a new grave and buried it like follows. It’s good that now I didn’t even have to cut my head off. No one was chasing the man anymore, and by morning he went out safely on the road.
… A week later, the hunter dreamed of the deceased. He thanked for that the comrade nevertheless performed the actions prescribed by the ritual, but scolded for the “delay”, because of which the dead man had There are certain problems in the whole world. However, more specifically about them he chose not to spread …
Time Shamans of Yakutia
