‘A soulless human corpse endowed by sorcery’: why we’re still obsessed with zombies
Following the Haitian Revolution of 1804, the story became part of the Voodoo religion. According to Haitians, zombies are ...
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From Voodoo to Scooby-Doo — the evolution of zombies from folklore, to horror movies, to the classroom
The idea of zombies originally came from Africa, and was brought over to the Caribbean with the slave trade during the 15th and 16th centuries. In Haiti’s Voodoo religion, a zombie was a ...
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Haiti: Embrace of voodoo practices, Papa Doc's army and frosty US ties
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Protestants say the voodoo spirit does not embody good virtues, while Catholicism, which ...