Real Zombies of Haiti
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On the island of Haiti, zombies are not fiction but fact. According to Haitian folklore, it is believed that there are many zombies enslaved to the will of a malevolent sorcerer or bokor. Anyone, dead or alive, can be turned into a zombie.
Everyone knows of the existence of zombies mainly fiction, but for many people, both in Haiti and elsewhere in the world, zombies are very real. The reality is that they are not mere nonsense, but they are something that should be taken seriously. Belief in magic and witchcraft is widespread throughout Haiti and the Caribbean, often in the form of religions such as Voodoo and Santeria.
Haitian zombies are believed to be people who are brought back from the dead (and sometimes controlled) through magical means by voodoo priests called bokors or houngan. Sometimes zombification is enhanced as punishment (instilling fear in those who believed they could be abused, even after death), but sometimes the zombies have been used as slave labor on farms and plantations of sugar. In 1980, a mentally ill person, even claimed he had been held captive as a zombie worker for two decades.
According to the principles of voodoo, a dead person can be revived by a Bokor or sorcerer. Zombies remain under the control of Bokor because they have no will. But apart from the scientific theory there is also the belief of the existence of the astral zombie, a part of the human soul is captured by a Bokor and is used to enhance your spiritual power.
The belief is based on controlling the soul of the obligation to multitask person. The zombie astral usually remains in a bottle or inside a skull. These items can be sold to customers for luck, healing or success in their business. It is believed that after a while the soul returns, so the zombie is considered as a temporary spiritual entity. It is also said in voodoo legend, that salt can bring back the zombie to the grave, because salt and zombies, according to the Haitian folklore, zombie returns to his senses. Often the zombie attacks Bokor who created it or returns to its place of burial and dies.
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