Zombies,Reincarnation and Seances - Life After Death - Documentary
Zombies are undead creatures, typically depicted as mindless, reanimated human corpses with a hunger for human flesh. Zombies are most typically found in scary and also fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) where a zombie is a body animated by magic. Modern representations of zombies do not necessarily include magic yet conjure up other approaches such as an infection.
Zombies have an intricate literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein drawing on European mythology of the undead. George A. Romero's reinvention of the monster for his 1968 movie Night of the Living Dead brought about many zombie films in the 1980s and also a revival of popularity in the 2000s. The "zombie apocalypse" principle, in which the civil globe is brought low by a global zombie problem, came to be a staple of modern-day popular art.
The English word "zombie" wases initially tape-recorded in 1819, in a past history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, through "zombi". The Oxford English Dictionary provides the origin of the word as West African, as well as contrasts it to the Kongo words nzambi (god) as well as zumbi (proclivity).
One of the very first publications to expose Western society to the concept of the Vodou zombie was The Magic Island by W.B. Seabrook in 1929. This is the sensationalized account of a narrator who experiences voodoo cults in Haiti and their resurrected thralls. Time declared that guide "presented 'zombi' into US speech".
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