Michael Bone
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: 22 May 2018
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Posts: 38
Location: Altoona, Iowa, USA
23 May 2018, 10:05 am
naturalplastic wrote:
AstroPi wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
For example...did you know that here in the United States vampires are NOT native to the country?
Of course, originally vampires came from Poland (and NOT from Transylvania, it was just Bram Stoker's idea for "Dracula")
Edit: I suspect Zombies also, the name probably stems from ząb - ząbi (it's tooth in english, that's why they bite)
Zombies were actually part of the belief system of Haitian Voodoo. So the word must come from the Haitian patois of French (the word might be either of French or of African origin).
There was a PBS show were they investigated Haitain zombies, and we viewers actually got to meet a supposed actual "zombie" in a village in rural Haiti.
The Twilight Saga sort of stumbles into accidental and unintentional social satire with its explanation of warewolves as being Native American, and vampires being European immigrants to America. They should have taken it further by having the vampires and warewolves suddenly unite...against the NEW wave of immigrants coming from south of the border. "Those damned zombies coming here from the Caribbean! We need to build a wall. And have the zombies PAY for it!".
Yea, zombies in pop culture were originally magical in nature, I think in some of the first appearances they made the lore behind them was that evil magic from the full moon or Halloween or some other spooky magical thing brought them to life from the grave. This stems from the mythos of the Haitian voodoo you mentioned.
23 May 2018, 10:54 am
Michael Bone wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
AstroPi wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
For example...did you know that here in the United States vampires are NOT native to the country?
Of course, originally vampires came from Poland (and NOT from Transylvania, it was just Bram Stoker's idea for "Dracula")
Edit: I suspect Zombies also, the name probably stems from ząb - ząbi (it's tooth in english, that's why they bite)
Zombies were actually part of the belief system of Haitian Voodoo. So the word must come from the Haitian patois of French (the word might be either of French or of African origin).
There was a PBS show were they investigated Haitain zombies, and we viewers actually got to meet a supposed actual "zombie" in a village in rural Haiti.
The Twilight Saga sort of stumbles into accidental and unintentional social satire with its explanation of warewolves as being Native American, and vampires being European immigrants to America. They should have taken it further by having the vampires and warewolves suddenly unite...against the NEW wave of immigrants coming from south of the border. "Those damned zombies coming here from the Caribbean! We need to build a wall. And have the zombies PAY for it!".
Yea, zombies in pop culture were originally magical in nature, I think in some of the first appearances they made the lore behind them was that evil magic from the full moon or Halloween or some other spooky magical thing brought them to life from the grave. This stems from the mythos of the Haitian voodoo you mentioned.
Same with vampires. They started out as magical/supernatural and then Hollywood and TV drifted to a disease/infection explanation.
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