A zombie is traditionally an undead person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of voodoo. Essentially a dead body re-animated by unnatural means, the zombie creates dread among the living. Zombies have become a staple of horror fiction, where they usually engage in the consumption of human flesh. The term "zombism" is sometimes used to refer to the condition or disease associated with being a zombie. Zombie - Zombies in voodoo. According to the tenets of voodoo, a dead person can be revived by a hounga ...

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According to the tenets of voodoo, a dead person can be revived by a houngan or mambo. After resurrection, it has no will of its own, but remains under the control of the person who performed the ritual. Such resurrected dead are called "zombies". Zombi is also the name of the voodoo snake god of Niger-Congo origin; it is akin to the Kongo word nzambi, which means "god." In 1937, while researching folklore in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of Felicia Felix-Mentor, who had died and been buried in 19 ...

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White Zombie is an American horror film, first released on August 4, 1932. It is believed to be the first film to deal with zombies. The film was produced independently by Edward and Victor Halperin, and directed by Victor Halperin, two minor silent film makers, from a script by Garnett Weston. It was picked up for distribution by United Artists. The script by Garnett Weston features a young couple in Haiti, Neil Parker (John Harron) and Madeleine Short (Madge Bellamy), who have been invited by a casual acquaintan ...

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This is a list of computer and video games prominently featuring zombies. Apocalypse Weekend Add on for the controversial game Postal², player finds themselves emerged in violent delusions or visions that the world is coming to an end and the dead are walking again. Notorious for it's uberviolence. Castlevania- Zombies make appearances normally during the early stages of the game, slow in movement and easy to kill. "Stronger" versions of the zombie appear later in the game as Ghouls, but are just as easy

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The best-known of Lucio Fulci's films, Zombi II (also known as Zombie Flesh Eaters) sparked an obsession with zombie films across Europe and made Fulci a horror icon. Upon its release in 1979, Zombi II was ridiculed for having no connection to the original Zombi and was scorned for its extremely bloody content, yet the film was a tremendous success. Zombi II - Background. Zombi II is a pseudo-sequel to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Dawn was re-edited and re-s ...

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The Zombie is a strong cocktail made of fruit juices and rum, so named for its perceived effects on the drinker. It first appeared in the late 1930s, invented by Donn Beach (formerly Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gannt) of Hollywood's Don the Beachcomber restaurant. It later appeared at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Beach concocted it one afternoon in the late 1930s for a friend who had dropped by his restaurant before flying to San Francisco. The friend left after having consumed three of them. He returned several days late ...

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Zombies Ate My Neighbours is a shooter-style video game for the Super NES and Genesis gaming systems. The game was produced by LucasArts as a comical tribute to both classic and schlocky horror films of the 1950s and 1960s. There was a sequel, Ghoul Patrol, which used more realistic graphics and more impressive monsters, but it was considered by many to lack the heart of the original, and to have thus killed the series off. Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Censorship. Due to the theme of the ...

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"All You Zombies" is a song by The Hooters on their second album Nervous Night released in 1985. The song stems from the stories of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments and Noah's Ark in the Old Testament of the Bible, and the fact that in both stories the people had rejected higher guidance. Some suggest that the song is a religious allegory on the unenlightened, warning them of what is to come if they do not accept the word of God, while others believe that the tune was written first and the lyrics only added because they fit. The song was performed by the ba ...

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This article's content is derived mainly from fictional-based sources, as there is no real authoritative source of the concept of Reanimation. The current name of the article is only implied, not stipulated that the name be as is. Corporal reanimation is the theoretical concept of reanimating a dead organism, imbuing it with bereft attributes of life, enabling it to move and interact freely as it did when the organism was alive. It is merely a concept ...

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The following are enemies in the Id Software First-person shooter Computer and video games Doom, Ultimate Doom, Doom II and Final Doom, and the new versions of those enemies in Doom 3 and its expansion pack Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil. Most of the enemies in the games are Demons from Hell. Doom enemies - Zombies. Zombies are undead soldiers. They are the only non-demonic enemies in the game and the only ones to drop ammunition when killed. Due to their bullet weapons, the ...

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"By His Bootstraps" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein that plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by time travel. It was originally published under the pen name Anson MacDonald in 1941. A man is visited by a stranger from the future via a time portal. The stranger pushes the protagonist back through the portal into the future. After a series of complicated events during which the protagonist meets up with himself several times, he gains control over the time machine that can create t ...

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Urban Dead is an HTML/text-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Kevan Davis. Set in a quarantined region of the fictional city of Malton, it deals with the immediate aftermath of a zombie outbreak. New players choose to start as a human survivor or a zombie, each with different abilities and limitations. Humans become zombies when they are killed, while most zombies can be "revived" with syringes, becoming human. There are no non-player characters in the game: ...

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Braindead (New Zealand 1992), released as Dead Alive in North America, is an extreme zombie horror-comedy directed by Peter Jackson. It is in the same vein as Jackson's earlier works Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles but Braindead is rather more polished, with a budget of around $3 million. Although it starts with the capture of a zombie-creating creature on the eerie Skull Island, the opening half of the film is a relatively low-key period piece. It isn't until the film's second half when it spi ...

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Zombie:

A corpse that has been partly brought back to (soul-less) life by magic.

See also Voodoo .

(See also: Zombie, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Zombie

In Haitian and West African folk belief, a soulless corpse reanimated by a Voodoo preist, known as a bocor. A zombie moves listlessly in a trancelike state and does the bidding of the bocor. The term is apparently derived from Nzambi, a West African deity.

Most cultural anthropologists working in Haiti discount stories about zombies. Some researchers, however, claim that the stories are true and that a bocor's victims are administered a powder containing a powerful neurotoxin derived from the puffer fish. The powder is alleged to paralyze the victim into a deathlike state. The bocor later revives the victim. Pharmacologists who have tested samples of the alleged powder found little or no poison in them.

Zombie was originally a python god of certain West African tribes, and its worship was carried to the West Indies with the slave trade, and still somewhat survives in Voodoo ceremonies in Haiti and some of the southern states of the USA.

(See also: Zombie, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

ZOMBIE

A Vodoun (Voodoo) creature. According to Wade Davis, "Zombie powder," a neurotoxin that lowers the metabolism enough to resemble death, is used by the Bizango "societies of the night" to bury the victim alive and then bring him back to half-life. The Zombie powder is a blend of human bones, spiders, lizards and toads. Zombiefication is a punic measure designed to teach the meaning of freedom and to make natives conform to society. Originally Zombi was the python god whose spirit can enter and empower a corpse.

(See also: ZOMBIE, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Zombie:

(1) Someone supposedly raised from the dead by a Vodun magician, possibly never really dead at all but rather drugged, who is used as a slave.

(2) Someone who has joined a repressive “cult” movement, lost their own personality and other intellectual faculties, and is used as a slave. Easily identified by the characteristic “glazed eye” look and inability to continue their conversation if interrupted several times in mid-partyline.

(See also: Zombie, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Zombies 2: Zombie Corps(e) - after escaping the town, the players must proceed through a secret military base to reach the helicopter. This expansion adds new tiles and event cards, as well as Government-enchanced super zombies (represented by glow-in-the-dark zombie figures) which move twice as fast and which require a five or six on the die to kill. Zombies 3: Mall Walkers - Adds a mall to the town. This expansion adds 16 new tiles and 32 event cards. Zombies 3.5: Not Dead Yet - This expansion adds new event cards. As an optional variant, players can ...

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The group formed in 1961 in St Albans, England, and gained their initial reputation playing the Old Verulamians Rugby Club in that town. After winning a beat-group competition sponsored by the London Evening News, the Zombies signed to Decca and recorded their first hit, "She's Not There" (Argent's second song, written specifically for this session), which was released in mid-1964. The minor-key, jazz-tinged single was first played in the United States during the first week in August 1964 on New York City rock station WINS by Stan Z. ...

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