Re: Enough of the Zombie Apocalypse..
<span style="color: #CC0000">Zombies Are NOT animated by a bacteria or rogue virus. Becoming a zombie has nothing to do with being bitten by anyone/thing. The living cannot be "turned into a zombie" as in Hollywood fantasies. They are people who have been raised from the dead by an animator or voodoo priest.</span>
"<span style="font-style: italic">I was here to talk about raising the dead. Not resurrection. I'm not that good. I mean zombies. The shambling dead. Rotting corpses. Night of the living dead. That kind of zombie . . . . It's a job, that's all, like selling</span>".
(Anita Blake, Vampire Executioner)
"Guilty Pleasures", page 1, paragraph 1
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<span style="font-style: italic">Comments</span>:
Unlike the Hollywood fantasy zombie, <span style="font-style: italic">true</span> zombies, werewolves and vampires go back many thousands of years, to the great Age of Magic when Dragons darkened the skies and mortal man feared for his very existance.
Ever since the Age of Magic ended with the fall of Atlantis, there was not enough magic left in the Earth to sustain the greater creatures like the dragon, but nontheless, zombies, like their breathern the vampire & werewolf, have been able to exist where enough magic is pooled or summoned to sustain them.
Unlike the Hollywood fantasy zombie, the real zombie, risen by command and fortified by magic, cannot be killed by a simple head shot. They continue to do their master's bidding until hacked into pieces, and even then, disparate parts will continue to crawl toward their goal.
The true zombie must be burned with fire, or the Vodun priest/Necromancer/Animator that animated is killed.
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<span style="font-style: italic">Additonal Comments</span>:
* Zombies are the undead. They are people who have been raised from the dead by an animator or voodoo priest. They have no conscious thoughts of their own, and they are not considered beings with rights. They cannot be sustained for very long, unless drastic measures are used.
(1) Feeding a zombie flesh, or raw meat will allow it to retain it's appearance for a longer period of time.
(2) Capturing the soul at death and putting it back into a reanimated body will keep the body from rotting.
* In order to be raised form the dead, a series of steps are required by the animator:
(1) The animator needs a death first. For newly dead, an animal is sufficient. The older the corpse, the bigger the animal required. After a few centuries, the only death "big enough" is a human sacrifice. This person is known as the "white goat" or "hornless goat".
Usually, a necromancer can use his/her own blood as a little death. The blood is also used to create a circle around the area where the zombis is to be raised. It will be unable to leave this circle, unless broken by the animator.
(2) The blood is then rubbed over the face (forehead and cheeks), both hands, under the shirt, and over the heart. Then it is rubbed onto the tombstone. Over flesh and stone, an ointment is rubbed in. (Comon ingredients: graveyard mold, rosemary-for memory, cinnamon or clove-for preservation, sage-for wisdom, thyme-to bind it together).
(3) A chant is made to call the zombie, and then when it is called forth, the blood is offered to the zombie in order to bring some kind of human rememberance to it. Using human blood quickens the zombie more readily and longer. A zombie can only be called from their grave by name. In theory, it is possible to call a zombie without naming them (Anita can).
* When it comes time to lay the zombie to rest again, salt is first thrown against the chest
("With salt I bind you to your grave.")
Then the bloody knife used in the sacrifice is passed over their lips.
("With blood and steel I bind you to your grave. {Insert name}, be at peace and walk no more.")
The zombie is then swallowed up by the earth once more.
* If an animator is raised from the dead as a zombie, it can possibly bring ghouls back with it. Also an animator zombie comes out of the grave craving flesh. It requires fresh meat until it can remember what it once was. Possibly this can be bypassed if a gris-gris is used to keep the zombie alive. However, it cannot be killed by fire immediately as other zombies can be.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they learn why they fear the night.</span>