How zombies came about, this really interested me

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I just created a post talking about the whole zombie apocolypse theory, and i then began to wonder, just how did the theory of zombie came about? i did some research and found it originated through voodoo, this really surprised me and i thought it be interesting to share with you, i always put the link of the vid first. basically for those of you who arent in the mood to watch the videos, voodoo priests will create a powder from certain plants, when this powder comes in contact with you, it will poison you and make you appear dead but it really makes you fall into a deep sleep, much like romeo and juliet, you will be dug up out of the ground by the man who put you into the deep sleep, and i guess they now have control over you? it still confuses me a little bit.

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I have a whole new respect for zombies now. Doesn't stop me from wanting to kill them, though.

I read a book called "The boy who can't/couldn't die" and it was about a boy, grieving over the death of his best friend, sought immortality only to become a sentient zombie.

There's a book you might want to look up, called "The Serpent and the Rainbow." It's written by an ethnobotonist who went to Haiti to investigate the zombie phenomenon. I think he's the guy who found out what the magic powders were made of, and why they do what they do.

There's also a movie by the same name, but it's only loosely based on the book and is more of a horror movie than a documentary.

I saw that movie ages ago. Now I must find the book.

I didn't watch the video, but I'm gonna assume it talks about the poison from a rare animal being used to put people in temporary coma's while voodoo priests wait for them to wake-up and convince them that they are zombies?

I think I have read about that before.

I work in the city of Glasgow and Zombies are front page news here ! Reason is that the Brad Pitt film "World War Z" is being filmed on location and Glasgow has been 'transformed' into Philadelphia,where the story is set. There have been scenes of thousands of people running through the streets fleeing from the Zombies.
Last year the council of another Scottish city,Dundee,actually published a paper outlining plans for dealing with a real zombie attack .
I think someone on the council had too much time on their hands,but you just never know what can happen.

One of my favourite movies is an old black & white classic,I Walked With A Zombie.Very atmospheric and subtle,as opposed to some of the modern gore-fests.That was set in Haiti and had Voodoo as the central theme.

I read that a man was deeply investigating the voodoo zombie phenomenon, maybe it was the Serpent and the Rainbow guy, and a doctor friend of his asked him if he really wanted to find out about this stuff, and what he really hoped to accomplish, and he realized he should stop.

But even if nobody ever researches zombieism again, we got a good Cranberries song out of it.