A still from the movie "I Walked with a Zombie" (Image found on Horrorpedia)
... And you can make one using zombie powder: a mix of skin irritants and tetrodotoxin. The first chafes the skin, which allows the pufferfish poison (where tetrodoxin comes from) to enter a person's system in nonlethal doses. This causes a nearly indistinguishable from death state.
So, naturally, when it happened in the past, people affected by this poison were presumed dead and buried. When they were dug up a few days later, the psychological effects of their "death" and a continuing diet of strong hallucinogens convinced them they'd been zombified.
This was very common in Haiti, where Voodoo priests used "zombies" as workers in sugar plantations.
So, naturally, when it happened in the past, people affected by this poison were presumed dead and buried. When they were dug up a few days later, the psychological effects of their "death" and a continuing diet of strong hallucinogens convinced them they'd been zombified.
This was very common in Haiti, where Voodoo priests used "zombies" as workers in sugar plantations.
~Ally
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