ZombieWiki
Zombie Wiki / All zombies / Books
File No. 081 of 446

Cauldron-Born

BooksUndeadSorcery1900 to 1967

The Cauldron-Born are the undead of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain novels, created from corpses by the Black Cauldron for the lord Arawn. The cauldron can be destroyed only by a living person's willing sacrifice. Disney filmed the story in 1985.1

⚔️ Battle it
First appeared
1965
Released 1965
Source work
The Black Cauldron (1965)
Lloyd Alexander
Age rating
PG (1985 Disney film)
Made in
USA
What causes it
Sorcery
The Black Cauldron turns corpses into undead warriors for the lord Arawn.
How you become one
A corpse is put into the cauldron.
Weak spots
  • the cauldron can be destroyed only if a living person knowingly climbs in to die

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1965

Released 1965

field notes

What the sources say

1

The novel is the second of the five Chronicles of Prydain1

2

It was a Newbery Honor book in 19661

3

Disney's 1985 film was rated PG rather than G, a first among its features1

4

The film was a commercial failure1

Sources

  1. The Black Cauldron (novel) - Wikipedia

Every fact on this page comes from these sources, written in our own words. Spotted a mistake? Tell us at hello@zombiewiki.app.

Same era: 1900 to 1967

Herbert White (The Monkey's Paw)The Monkey's Paw (1902)Vampires of I Am Legend (novel)I Am Legend (1954)Herbert West's reanimated corpsesHerbert West–Reanimator (1922)Zombies of The Magic IslandThe Magic Island (1929)