Commonly thought of as a person who has died and been brought back to life by voodoo rituals, thanks to a great many horror stories and films. The people so described in the West Indies have almost certainly been drugged and buried while in a state of...

. As used by philosophers, creature looking and behaving exactly like a human but having no conscious experiences. See also...

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A zombie is a reanimated corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the dead being raised as workers by a powerful sorcerer. In modern horror fiction, zombies are generally undead corpses...