Zombi (Haitian)

Tinatawag ding: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre

Alamat at mitoUndeadHirap lumakadKulam1500 hanggang 1899

The zombi of Haitian folklore is a dead or seemingly dead person taken from the grave by a sorcerer and kept as a slave without will. The word comes from Central African languages, and the belief was shaped by the plantation slavery of colonial Haiti, where death was supposed to be the one escape from forced labour. Researchers have proposed drugs, mental illness and mistaken identity to explain reported cases, and none of these accounts is settled. This figure, a body that works and obeys but is no longer a person, is the origin of the word and the concept behind every later zombie.1 2

⚔️ Labanan ito

Unang naitala

1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

Pinagmulan

Haitian (Vodou folklore)

Haiti

Ano ang sanhi

Kulam

A sorcerer (bokor) either raises a buried body by necromancy or captures the part of the soul that carries will and memory, leaving a controllable shell.

Paano ka magiging isa

A bokor makes the victim appear to die, takes the body from the grave at night and holds its ti bon anj, the seat of will and personality.

Paano ito gumagalaw

Hirap lumakad

Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.

Talino

Walang utak

Mga kahinaan

salt or salt water, which is said to wake it or release it
preventive burial: laying the corpse face down, filling the mouth with earth or sewing the lips shut
sesame seeds scattered on the grave to keep the spirit counting

Kailan ito unang lumitaw?

Sinaunang mundo

Gitnang Panahon

1500 hanggang 1899

1900 hanggang 1967

1968 hanggang 1999

2000 hanggang 2009

2010 hanggang ngayon

1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

mga tala sa field

Ano ang sabi ng mga pinagmulan

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others1 2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'1 2

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle1 2

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements1 2

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves1 2

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)1 2

Kaya mo bang takasan ito?

Klase ng bilis ayon sa paglalarawan ng mga pinagmulan (hirap lumakad), hindi sukat.

Zombi (Haitian) mga 3 km/h

Ikaw, naglalakad mga 5 km/h

Ikaw, nagjo-jogging mga 10 km/h

Isang fit na adultong nagsi-sprint mga 24 km/h

Isang mabilis na siklista mga 37 km/h

Mga pinagmulan

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