What are zombies?

Question

i realized that when people talk about zombies, i have kind of a vague notion that they are scary creatures that may or may not be dead, but i have no idea what they are. what are they?

Answer 1

A zombie is an undead person in the Caribbean tradition of voodoo. Essentially a dead body re-animated by supernatural means, the zombie creates dread among the living. Zombies have been popularly adapted for horror fiction, film, and video games, where they usually engage in cannibalism.

Answer 2

Zombies are the walking dead.
They were known as Golem to the early Hebrew.
Dead slaves to the Necromancers
Zombies to Voudon and Voodoo
The Necromancer trapped the spirits of the dead in corpses and made them work for him/her as laborers of simple repetitive tasks because the "Dead slave" had no soul in which to hold knowledge.
The Hebrew tradition reports that Golem were created to protect family or exact justice.
The Voudon/Voodoo tradition uses Alchemy to remove or put to sleep the soul and create a living drone that can do nothing but follow. The drug they used was retrieved by a guy and named Zombinol (Watch Serpent and the rainbow) there was a movie made about the guy. Research Zombinol on the web to learn more.

Answer 3

They are people who were infected by a virus in their life, died, and rose again. They crave living flesh. A bite from them will transfer the virus. A way to remove the danger of the zombie is to damage the brain. A Zombie siege would only last approx 5 years, but it is wise to be cautious for at least 30.

Answer 4

Generally, zombie are understood as dead bodies which (who?) can still walk and move, but they do not appear to have a soul or spirit. In popular media, sometimes they're 'summoned' and controlled, other times they're there just because; there are many circumstance why they can be there.

In Capcom's video game series titled 'Resident Evil', or 'Bio Hazard' in Japan, people are turned into 'zombies' because of an artificlly produced virus.

Answer 5

I believe in zombies, but not the undead "Night of the Living Dead" or "Twenty-Eight Days Later" variety. Google "Haitian zombies" and go the www.webster.edu~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/davis1.htm listing

Answer 6

Zombies are humans who were once dead but have been reanimated by some unknown force. They generally are a hostile group who bite to kill and make it's victim into a zombie.
Other groups simply kill and eat the brains of their enemy, or victim.

Answer 7

Zombies, or formally known as "Freloupue" were created as a fictional charector in Stewart Wrigts book "The shadow killer", wirtten in 1923. Zombies are humans that have deciesed, or that are dead, and come back to life. There new objective in there new life is to kill you, or the antagnest, of the story. The are scary ugly dead smelly people.

Answer 8

Zombies are a common household species. They often take forms of beautiful female humans charming in everyway. However, you can quickly distinguish them from real female humans by having sex with them, as sex can turn them into non-moving form. They simply lie there.

Zombies are espcially common in England.

Answer 9

First of all, they're figmints of your imagination (they don't exist).

They're creaters that aren't exactly dead but are definitly not alive. Infected by something that makes them catatonic but possessed by something that creates movement in their bodies.

It's kind of a possession that forces the otherwised paralized person to perform "deadly" tasks.

I don't know who made up the creature, but that's my understanding of it.

Answer 10

zombies,are the fictional walking dead ...