Do you believe in Zombies?- The stuff from Santeria in Haiti.. What is that all about?

Answer 1

i freakin love zombies.

the idea of a zombie filled city is awesome. the fight for survival against the horrible odds.....cool!

Answer 2

Santeria is a syncretistic religion of Caribbean origin. It incorporates the worship of the Orisha (literally "head guardian") and beliefs of the Yoruba and Bantu people in Southern Nigeria, Senegal and Guinea Coast. These are combined with elements of worship from Roman Catholicism.

Its origins date back to the slave trade when Yoruba natives were forcibly transported from Africa to the Caribbean. They were typically baptized by the Roman Catholic church upon arrival, and their native practices were suppressed. They developed a novel way of keeping their old beliefs alive by equating each Orisha of their traditional religions with a corresponding Christian Saint.

Zombies.... may be seen in certain elements of the belief system, much like an exorcism in some sections of Christianity, but this is not widely believed. And more specifically, there really is no evidence of this. However, there is often a hypnotic like state that some religions induce in their followers, and these resemble the Zombie-like quality you refer to.

Please understand that to our Westernized mind, these practices and beliefs are very archaic and almost surreal or false, but you have to be open to the idea that the world we see and know is not shared by all peoples. There is no unified theory or belief that defines all truth and experience for everyone at all times.

Answer 3

Zombies? NO. Santeria seems like some type of Lord of the Rings character type story that people somehow formed into a religion. It seems like they took some old African religions and merged them with some Roman Catholicism that may have been more forced on them than offered. You see a lot of this "merging" of religions lately. People are starting to say that Jesus was a Buddist and all sorts of nonscense. You can't take a bunch of mythical religions, blend in some truth, mix it up and make it sound easy and expect it to be true. Truth is truth and lies are lies. You can't mix up truth with lies and expect it to look like truth. Zombies? Is that a real question? Who actually believes in Zombies?

Answer 4

Your options is skewed to assert the least. maximum Mexicans and Latinos are of the catholic faith or in the different case christians. maximum illegals come to the united states to discover honest artwork. There are some that spoil the regulation (except immigration regulation), and at the same time as stuck they oftentimes do reformatory time and are deported. Many police departments in the previous have not arrested illegals because the federal authorities would not %. them up from the county jails or pay for the fee the county ensued for the incarceration of those illegals. progression fences received't artwork as human beings searching for a more beneficial useful existence will bypass over below or by them. sounds like Berlin wall, bear in options or listen about that? What are you fearful of? you imagine they are going to take your job cleansing loos?

Answer 5

The term Vodou (Vodu or Vudu in Benin; and Togo; also Vodon, Vodoun, Voudou, or other phonetically equivalent spellings. In Haiti; Vudu (an Ewe word, also used in the Dominican Republic) is by some individuals applied to the branches of a West African ancestral religious tradition. It is important to note that the word "Voodoo" is the most common and known usage in American and popular culture, and is viewed as offensive by the Afro-Diaspora practicing communities. However, the different spellings of this term can be explained as follows:

The word "Voodoo"' is used to describe the Creole tradition of New Orleans, Vodou is used to describe the Haitian Vodou Tradition, while Vudon and Vodun and Vodoun are used to describe the deities honoured in the Brazilian Jeje (Ewe) nation of Candomble as well as West African Vodoun, and in the African-American Diaspora. When the word "Vodou/Vodoun" is capitalized, it denotes the Religion proper. When the word is used in small caps, it denotes the actual deities honored in each respective tradition.

Its roots are believed to be varied and include the Fon, Mina, Kabye, Ewe, and Yoruba peoples of West Africa, from western Nigeria to eastern Ghana. In Benin, Vodun is the national religion, followed by around 80% of the population, or some 4½ million people. The word Vodún "Vodoun" "Vudu" is the Fon-Ewe word for spirit. Voodoo in Haiti is highly influenced by Central African traditions. The Kongo rites, also known in the north of Haiti as Lemba (originally practiced among the Bakongo) and is as widespread as the West African elements. The Vodoun religion was suppressed during slavery and Reconstruction in the United States, but maintained most of its West African elements.

Santería, also known as Lukumí or Regla de Ocha, is an Afro-Cuban religion derived from traditional Yoruba beliefs. In the Yoruba language, Lukumí means "friends" and also applies to descendants of Yorùbá slaves in Cuba, their music and dance, and the cubanized dialect of the Yorùbá language.

Answer 6

A zombie is a dead person that is brought back to life through means of Vodoun or necromancy, destroying the mental processes of this person through the process. Most people consider zombies only to be the stuff of horror books and movies, but they do exist in Haiti in the present day. Thousands of people in Haiti are considered to be zombies, some of which lead normal everyday lives with families, jobs and are respected citizens. It¹s even considered to be a crime to make a zombie in Haiti.

Haitian Penal Code:

Article 249. It shall also be qualified as attempted murder the employment which may be made against any person of substances which, without causing actual death, produce a lethargic coma more or less prolonged. If, after the person had been buried, the act shall be considered murder no matter what result follows.


To make a zombie, a voodoo practitioner makes a potion that consists of mainly the poison of the pufferfish (one of the strongest nerve poisons known to man, the clinical drug norcuron has similar effects and is used during surgery) that is given to the intended victim. This causes severe neurological damage, primarily effecting the left side of the brain (the left side of the brain controls speech, memory and motor skills). The victim suddenly becomes lethargic, then slowly seems to die. In reality, the victim¹s respiration and pulse becomes so slow that it is nearly impossible to detect. The victim retains full awareness as he is taken to the hospital, then perhaps to the morgue and finally as they are buried alive. Then, at the voodoo practitioner¹s leisure does he come to retrieve the victim, now become a slave, as a commodity (at one time it was said that most of the slaves who worked in the sugar cane plantations of Haiti were zombies. One case in 1918 had a voodoo priest named Ti Joseph who ran a gang of laborers for the American Sugar Corporation, who took the money they received and fed the workers only unsalted porridge). A zombie will remain in a robot-like state indefinitely, until he tastes either salt or meat(so much for ³The Night of the Living Dead²). Then the zombie becomes aware of their state, immediately returning to the grave. The reality behind the zombie has only been taken seriously by medical science within the last ten years, since the use of CAT scans of the brain, along with the confessions of voodoo priests, explaining their methods. Previous to that, zombies were considered mental defective by science or explained as stunts to try to confuse scientists.


There are many examples of zombies in modern day Haiti. Papa Doc Duvallier the dictator of Haiti from 1957 to 1971 had a private army that was said to consist of zombies, called tonton macoutes. These people were said to be in trances and they followed every command that Duvallier gave them. Duvallier was also a devout voodooist, as are many people in Haiti, who lead a voodoo church, (Hounfor )with many followers. He also claimed that he was immortal and he would rule Haiti forever¹, promising to return after his death to rule again. After his death (a heart attack), he did not come back, although a guard was placed at his tomb, to insure that he would not try to escape, or so someone wouldn¹t try to steal the body (this is a common practice in Haiti, along with the padlocking of tombs, for the same reason). There are also many stories of people that die, then many years later return to the shock and surprise of relatives. A man named Caesar returned 18 years after he died to marry, have three children and die again, 30 years after he was originally buried. Another case involved a student from a village Port-au-Prince who had been shot in a robbery attempt. Six months later, the student returned to his parent¹s house as a zombie. At first it was possible to talk with the man, and he related the story of his murder, a voodoo witch doctor stealing his body from the ambulance before he reached hospital and his transformation into a zombie. As time went on, he became unable to communicate, he grew more and more lethargic and died.

A case reported a writer named Stephen Bonsal described a zombie he witnessed in 1912 in this way:A man had at intervals a high fever he had joined a foreign mission church and the head of the mission saw the patient die. He assisted at the funeral and saw the dead man buried. Some days later the supposedly dead man was found dressed in grave clothes, tied to a tree, moaning. The poor wretch soon recovered his voice but not his mind. He was indentifed by his wife, by the psysicain who ahd prounced him dead, and by the clergyman. The victim recognized no-one, and his days were spent moaning inarticulate words no-one could understand.

Answer 7

It's all about superstitious nonsense. I have heard it said they are given poison until they are thought to be dead and are buried and they are then dug up from the grave and have lost their mind from the experience. But in my opinion it is all nonsense.

Answer 8

no, but the movies like " Resident Evil" and " Dawn of the Dead" creep me out. They're good movies though.

Answer 9

No. Don't know much about them. Hope they believe in me though.

Answer 10

Not another ZOMBIE question:
They don't exist, and thats all there is to it...