Where Do Zombies Come From? (Not From ‘Night Of The Living Dead’)

Actually, they come from Haitian vodou – specifically, “the belief that a bokor or witch-doctor can render their victim apparently dead … and then revive them as their personal slaves, since their soul or will has been captured. The zombie, in effect, is the logical outcome of being a slave: without will, without name, and trapped in a living death of unending labour.”