ZOMBIES

ORIGINATED FROM?

• Comes from the Haitian Voodoo culture
• Voodoo priests possessed the ability to resurrect
• The dead through 'coup padre' a powder used orally

CREATOR?

FIRST APPEARANCE IN LITERATURE

OTHER APPEARANCES

• You Can't Hang the Dead- Leslie Carroll
• A Grave Must be Deep- Theodore Roscoe
• Night of the Living Dead -George A. Romero

WHAT IS THE MONSTER KNOWN FOR?

• They are usually mindless and eat human flesh
• Usually considered bad
• Usually have grey skin, rotten skin, unhealed wounds, shuffle
• Lack of communication, usually after people's brains

NEMESIS?

• Humans

FACTS

• According to legend 'zombi' is someone who annoyed their family
• Tetrodoxin was a main ingredient in Haitian Voodoo
• Mainly seen in horror or fantasy books/plays/movies
• Zombies serve as a purpose to remind us we will look like them someday
• Most books about Zombies were written during the Cold War (paranioia)

SOURCES

• "Zombies." Zombies. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2014. .
• "Zombies Before Romero." Zombies: Before Romero. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. .
• "Zombie." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Dec. 2013. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. .