History of The Zombie

Zombie is a term for the undead in the Voodoo belief system Creole and African-Caribbean. Zombie is the man with the spirit that had been stolen in a way supernatural or shamanic, and was employed as a slave who served the "zombie master" in the plantation areas. A more sinister version of zombies and humans like to eat often appointed as horror fiction.

"Zombi" is also the name for a voodoo snake god named Damballah Wedo Niger-Congo origin close to the word nzambi which in Congo means "god".

In 1937, Zora Neale Hurston researchers who conduct research folklore in Haiti find cases Felicia Felix-Mentor, who died at the age of 29 and was buried in 1907. The villagers believe that they often saw Felicia dead 30 years ago are still likes to hang around in the streets. The same case was also found in several others. Zora Hurston sought truth rumor says zombies are humans who have been given a concoction of drugs, but was unable to find anyone willing to open up about the secrets of the zombie.

Some twenty years later, an ethnobotany Canada named Wade Davis raised the matter from the point of view of pharmacology zombies in two books titled The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombi (1988). According to the research results Wade Davis while he was in Haiti in 1982, two types of ingredients included powdered drug into the blood stream (usually via an open wound) can transform the living into zombies.

The first drug powder called coup de poudre (French for "medicine attacker") that make human beings in a state of "like death" caused by tetrodotoxin dose. Tetrodoksin is a deadly poison that also contained fugu puffer fish and fish that are common food in Japan. Man given nearly lethal doses tetrodoksi (LD50 of 1 mg), may be in a state of near death for several days, but continues in the waking state. Herb medicine powder from the plant genus Datura both hallucinogens and make people have no will of its own. Wade Davis also explores the story of the Haitian people named Clairvius Narcisse who claimed never to be used as a zombie. Theory Wade Davis often treated with skepticism the story and the truth is often a source of debate. Voodoo belief still impenetrable secrecy foreign researchers, although some people Haiti acknowledged the existence of "zombie drug"

In the Middle Ages people believed the spirits of the dead could return to earth and haunt the living. According to the free Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were, corpses up from the grave (especially in France) usually come kill people for revenge. When night fell, at the tombs of wandering zombies or skeleton shaped bodies that have thin and weak. Norse (Scandinavian) familiar creature named Draugr corpse believed to be the knight who got up from the grave to attack the living.

In modern culture in the West, who first peel books zombie concept is the work of WB The Magic Island Seabrook published in 1929. Zombies often appear in horror films, television shows, video games, and role playing (RPG). Zombies are usually described as rotting corpses with low intelligence and stagger, but got a taste of human meat. In some cases, more zombies targeting the human brain to eat.

Before the 1950's, usually described as a corpse zombie brains are not controlled like a puppet master. The depiction of zombies in popular culture changed in 1954 with the publication of the book I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The book tells the city of Los Angeles are blood-sucking creatures invaded a bacterial infection caused by a pandemic. The sole survivor of a pandemic must survive the onslaught of people who had been turned into a blood-sucking creature. Although similar to the vampire story, the plot is often used as the basis for the zombie-themed films produced in the future. Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero is the first film to depict the modern zombie. Film The Last Man on Earth (1964), starring Vincent Price was also based on the story by Richard Matheson. Similarly, the film The Omega Man (1971), starring Charlton Heston, although this film has little resemblance to the original story.

The most common story plot revolves around the uncontrolled invasion of zombies. A group of survivors trying to stop the spread of zombies. As with many other horror stories, zombie story does not end happy end and there is always something remaining zombies. The origin of the zombie plague is usually in the form of radioactive contamination, toxic materials that make the brain dead, black magic, voodoo, aliens, viral infections and various other reasons.

In various works of fiction, zombies can infect healthy people through bites or scratches zombies. Zombie attack victims are usually killed instantly and turned into zombies. Zombies can be killed by cutting off the head or destroying the brain zombies. In some cases, the entire body must be destroyed if the zombies do not want zombie body parts that had broken moving steadily.