PP 2 & Audio: Zombies Flashcards
Zombie History
Comes from West Africa
HOME-BASE: HAITI
Take root in Haiti and Haitian Creole traditions
Voodoo sorcerer- Bokor
Controlled by “Sorcerer”
Death was the only escape
“1st print appearance”
1838- “The Unknown Painter”
Definition of Voodoo
MEANS SPIRIT OR DEITY
In voodoo, everything is a spirit
T or F
TRUE
Mainstream Zombie
**1920’s it became popular
The White Zombie movie 1932
**1968 GEORGE ROMERO’s
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
Wade Davis &
His Ingredients to make:
“Real Zombies”
Wade Davis he was a Harvard Ethnobotanist
“The Serpent and the Rainbow” -movie
He found the ingredients how to make a zombie:
1)Tetrodoxin+
2)Datura+
3)Recently deceased child’s brain
Cultural Factors
Religion associated with zombies
VOODOO
What country in the new world, was the home base for zombies?
HAITI
T or F: Father of zombies movies in the US is George Lucas
FALSE
Who is the Father of zombies
(Who coined it)
George Romero
According to Wade Davis: The controversial ingredient to make zombie powder:
Recently deceased child’s brain
He claimed to eat human flesh as part of zombies rituals
He was a travel writer in the 1900’s
WILLIAM SEABROOK
Medical condition that ppl in Haiti will say they are a zombie
Catatonic Schizophrenia
Why zombies and not vampires? TABULA RAZAA
ZOMBIES ARE NEWER
WE CAN MOLD THEM ON HOW WE WANT THEM TO BE
COMES FROM A CLEAN BACKGROUND
VAMPIRES cannot come out because of sun light, crosses or garlic
Zombies represent the fear we have of:
Unknown
Medication
Disease
Lack of agency over our own bodies
Gateway
