| A zombie is often a reanimated dead or a mindless | | | | zombies. |
| human being. In the middle ages it was commonly | | | | The Epic of Gilgamesh of ancient Sumer includes |
| believed that the souls of the dead will return to the | | | | zombies. Ishtar in the fury of vengance says: |
| earth and haunt the living. The zombies appear in | | | | " Father give me the Bull of Heaven, |
| several other cultures worldwide like China, India, Japan, | | | | So he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling. |
| the Pacific and the Native Americans. | | | | If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven, |
| Haitian Vodou is a religion from the Caribbean country | | | | I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld, |
| of Haiti. As a part of the Vodou religion they believe | | | | I will smash the doorposts, and leave the doors flat |
| that magician called bokors can revive the recently | | | | down, |
| dead. According to the tenets of Vodou, a dead | | | | And will let the dead go up to eat the living! |
| person can be revived by a sorcerer and the zombie | | | | And the dead will outnumber the living!" |
| remains under his control because they have no will on | | | | Other older literature in which zombies are mentioned |
| their own. | | | | are: "One Thousand and One Nights", "Frankestein", |
| Some of them use blood and hair from the victims in | | | | various Gothic Romanticism by Edgar Allan Poe and |
| conjunction with voodoo dolls to zombify them. There | | | | lots of others. Not only books are written also and |
| are also and some other methods of zombification | | | | movies are filmed. But enough for the history of the |
| which involve a specially prepared concoction of | | | | zombies rare are the people who actually believe in |
| mystical herbs in addition to human and animal parts. | | | | them. |
| When the bokor performs the ancient voodoo rite, he | | | | Nowadays besides the films with zombies also are |
| takes possession of the victim's soul, and replacing it | | | | popular and the zombie games. There are actually a |
| with the Ioa that he controls. | | | | lot of games with zombies, and if you hate to see |
| The "trapped" soul usually is placed in a small clay jar, | | | | them on the TV screen maybe you will want to play |
| which is wrapped in a fragment of the victim's clothing, | | | | with them. |
| or some other personnel possession owned by the | | | | Also the games with zombies are divided into several |
| victim in life, and then the jar is hidden in a secret place | | | | categories like: Zombie Games, Weird Games, Torture |
| which is known only by the bokor. | | | | Games, and some other scary games. So I will say it |
| When the zombie is revived he has no power of | | | | again if you are not blood lover and you are too |
| speech and his memory is gone. They are easy to | | | | scared to watch all those creepy faces on the |
| control and usually are used by the bokors as slaves. | | | | screens, and despite all that you want to know more |
| According to the Haitian folklore, feeding salt to a | | | | about the zombies, you can search some online |
| zombie will return it to its sense. | | | | games to play or maybe some zombie related book |
| Then the zombies often attack the bokor who | | | | to read. |
| created it, or returns to its place of burial and dies. | | | | Oh and one last thing sometimes the zombie games |
| Although zombies can be traced to Haiti within the last | | | | can be funny, not all of them are scary. So the choice |
| few centuries, older myths have some similarities to | | | | is yours. Make the right one. |