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The Trail of a Zombie
Follow a zombie? It seemed like a mad thing to do but yet Tina was doing it. The whole country of Haiti had gone mad so would following a zombie seem that much out of the usual?
Tina remembered seeing some movies where zombies could speak. Could this one?
"Sir?" she asked, hoping to get the zombie's attention this time. Still the zombie did not react. "Sir?" Tina placed a hand on the zombie's shoulder. Still it did not react. It just kept walking.
This left her stumped. What was she to do now?
What did she know about zombies?
Well, in Haitian folklore a zombie was an animated corpse raised by magical means such as witchcraft. But Tina did not believe in witchcraft. So, maybe something else raised them?
The concept had been popularly associated with the Voodoo religion but it played no part in its formal practices. Then how did zombies become a part of the religion?
The word zombie was first recorded in 1819 in poet Robert Southey's history of Brazil with the word being written as "zombi." According to Oxford English dictionary the word was of West African origin and compared it to the Kongo words "nzambi", the word for god, and "zumbi", the word for fetish.
That was really all Tina knew!
She had seen "Zombies of Mora Tau", "Invisible Invaders", "The Fur Skulls of Jonathan Drake", "The Last Man on Earth", "The Plague of the Zombies", "Night of the Living Dead", "The Oblong Box" and "Isle of the Snake People." It was those films that had firmly put the concept of the zombie as something being completely fiction. That new movie "Horror Express" staring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas was said to involve a zombie. After going through this she probably wouldn't see it.
All Tina could wonder was wonder what rabbit hole this Zombie's trail would go through.