In Haitian folklore, a zombie (Haitian Creole: zonbi, Haitian French: zombi) is an animated corpse raised by magical means, such as witchcraft.
The concept has been popularly associated with the Vodou religion, but it plays no part in that faith's formal practices.
To many people, both in Haiti and elsewhere, zombies are very real.
They are not a joke; they are something to be taken seriously. Belief in
magic and witchcraft is widespread throughout Haiti and the Caribbean,
often in the form of religions such as voodoo and santeria.
Haitian zombies were said to be people brought back from the dead (and
sometimes controlled) through magical means by voodoo priests called
bokors or houngan. Sometimes the zombification was done as punishment
(striking fear in those who believed that they could be abused even
after death), but often the zombies were said to have been used as slave
labor on farms and sugarcane plantations. In 1980, one mentally ill man
even claimed to have been held captive as a zombie worker for two
decades, though he could not lead investigators to where he had worked,
and his story was never verified.
Zombies in Books.
As a reader, I've found 4 kind of zombies in books. It depends on your choice of the ones you want to read.
The Gross Zombies.
The Sweet Zombies
The Hot Zombies
And the "handmade" zombies.
I can't decide if the zombies from The Reaper Diaries series are sweet or gross or just shallow. This book mixes zombies and Egyptian Mythology.
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