• Jyek
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    4 months ago

    I mean… Zombies are a Haitian voodoo thing.

    • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Voodoo introduced zombies, but the modern zombie has diverged significantly from that concept, making them quite distinct from each other. A movie character pointing at a zombie and saying “it’s like one of those voodoo zombie things” doesn’t make much sense because the concepts are pretty different now. Additionally, more people associate Romero zombies with the word “zombie” rather than the voodoo zombie.