Zombies (Haitian Beliefs)

Area(s) reported: North America:Haiti
Date(s) reported: 1660 (?) to Present

"In Haiti there is a belief that magicians can raise the body of a recently deceased person to become a mindless and tireless slave… a Zombie. As it turns out, the zombies are real… and a few people have been able to recover enough from being turned into one that they have told the world what it was like to become a monster!"

This monster's full article is in Monsters Here & There, Vol. 1

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