A Brief History of Zombies.

Like the Mummy, Zombies are a lumbering, staggering, Halloween and Horror presence.What makes zombies different is that they do not come from a European gothic tradition. Instead, the zombie story originates in Haiti, where West Africans were brought as slaves to work on the sugar plantations. As a part of the voodoo religion, Haitians believe that magicians, or houngans, can revive the recently dead, turning them into mindless, soulless servants. Believers in voodoo will guard the grave of deceased relatives until they are certain that it has begun to decay, for the magic only works on fresh bodies. Zombies are a greatly studied thing in our society today. Scientists have studied the zombie legend for some time now and have several explanations for this belief.