Zombies have become a staple of pop culture, but as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss, they are a real and recognized phenomenon in the nation of Haiti. What are these zombies, what causes them, and are they really the dead brought back to life?AI-powered
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Zombies! (Real, Haitian Zombies!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Zombis and Revenants in Folklore
Zombis are not the first kind of walking dead to appear in folklore. In mediaeval europe, they had all kinds of stories about dead bodies coming back to life as fearsome beings. For a zombe or revenant to be created, the person has to come back in a markedly worse way - which is why zambis are so scary.
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