![]() ![]() This reanimation was brought about through the use of drugs, demons, and rituals of voodoo, 3 a religion derived from a combination of West African and Roman Catholic faiths. In the Caribbean, the French-speaking people of Afro-Haitian culture adopted the word to describe a (supposed) dead body that is reanimated. This is the same language spoken by native Africans, who once captured and sold their fellow people as slaves 2 to ship captains traveling to the Americas. It is a serious inquiry for some people today after all, zombies are a popular topic of conversation all year round, not just during Halloween.Īccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, 1 the word ‘zombie’ is a combination of words from the West African Bantu language, vumbi meaning a god, and zumbi meaning fetish. “Are zombies mentioned in the Bible?” That is a question I once received from a new Christian.
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