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The history of the UNDEAD: from Draugr to Zombie movies

Survive the Jive Podcast

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The Drowg's Anxiety

The drowg is an undead creature, a risen walking dead. Some of the names for it just literally mean afterwalker, like they have risen from the grave. The sire of the vampire and of the zombie, you know, the the drowg are like this proto form. And unlike modern zombies, our modern understanding of zombies,. which is actually sort of taken from like voodoo and stuff like that in Afro and Caribbean cultures. It's very much envious of the living, which is something that we find in all of Indo-European and pagan understanding.

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