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  2. Zombie - Wikipedia

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    Zombies are a common undead creature type fantasy role playing games. In Dungeons & Dragons, zombies are one of the basic undead creature types, based on the zombie from folklore as well as more contemporary entertainment. [110] Zombies are generally portrayed as supernatural creations, with variations such as the Ju-ju, Sea Zombie, and Zombie ...

  3. Jiangshi - Wikipedia

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    Folklore and burial practices dealing with revenants can also be traced back to Norse mythology with draugr or draug(s) that closely resemble stories of jiangshis. [24] These draugr were also re-animated corpses that rose from their graves, and many of the various accounts report the draugr to be sighted far from its initial burial site. [24]

  4. Ro-langs - Wikipedia

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    A ro-langs (Tibetan: རོ་ལང) is a zombie-like creature from Tibetan folklore. Ro is the word for corpse and Langs is the perfect tense of "to rise up", so Ro-Langs literally means "a risen corpse". A ro-langs is usually created by a gdon spirit, or a sorcerer. [1]

  5. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Nachtkrapp (German folklore) – The Night Raven; Nine-headed Bird – a totem creature, predecessor to the Fenghuang; Oozlum bird – (Australian and British folk tales) Pamola – bird/moose spirit who causes cold weather; Paskunji (Georgian/ Caucasus) phoenix like underworld dwelling bird. Kills the snakes on the path to the afterlife & aid ...

  6. Jiangshi fiction - Wikipedia

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    Jiangshi fiction, or goeng-si fiction in Cantonese, is a literary and cinematic genre of horror based on the jiangshi of Chinese folklore, a reanimated corpse controlled by Taoist priests that resembles the zombies and vampires of Western fiction.

  7. Zombie (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A zombie is traditionally an undead person in Haitian folklore, and is regularly encountered in fictional horror and fantasy themed works. Zombi , Zombie , or Zomby may also refer to: People

  8. Clairvius Narcisse - Wikipedia

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    Clairvius Narcisse (January 2, 1922 – 1994) was a Haitian man who claimed to have been turned into a zombie by a Haitian Vodou, and forced to work as a slave.. One hypothesis for Narcisse's account was that he had been administered a combination of psychoactive substances (often the paralyzing pufferfish venom tetrodotoxin and the strong deliriant Datura), which rendered him helpless and ...

  9. Jumbee - Wikipedia

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    Guyana, and various islands—including Antigua and Barbuda in the east, The Bahamas in the north and as far south as Trinidad—have long held a tradition of folklore that includes the jumbee. In the French islands Guadeloupe and Martinique, people speak of Zombi rather than Jumbie to describe ghosts, revenants and other supernatural creatures ...