Let's take a look at the note here. Today, a zombie is supposed to be a dead person

in some religions who looked and behaved like he or she is alive through magic.

Even though most of us probably think it as just fantasy from sci-fi from these ... a

horror movie, some horror movies having these characters, especially in recent

years. They've got carried away with zombie movies and zombie stories and

they've actually changed zombies a lot from the very beginning. But let's

continue., for now. We do have a second meaning of zombie. Sometimes referred to

as a real person. Its a more humorous one. If the person

is really overtired and they're exhausted and their head is not very

sharp that day, usually people say I'm a real zombie today or I feel like a

zombie today. So, so we do use that meaning too , usually in a humorous way. Of

course, not meaning that you are literally a zombie. All right. Let's

continue here. Out of all the typical horror movie creatures you know, such as

vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein, etc. zombies are the only ones based on some

truth. Okay. The origin of the word comes from the

West African languages. I think around the Congo area if I remember correctly.

The word meaning " zumbi" meaning a fetish and" zombi "meaning god, originally

from a snake God. So and then of course you know this worked its way into the

Voodoo religion. So let's continue here. Zombie comes from the religion of Voodoo.

You know, like we always hear about voodoo dolls. Well they're they're the

ones that's connected to zombies too. Some voodoo priests known as bokors or a

bokor. This type of voodoo priests. So I don't know, if all voodoo priests do

this, but ones that have that have done this practice is referred to as a bokor.

So bokors used a concoction. A concoction is like a strange mixture, of herbs,

shells, fish, animal parts, bones and some objects that they

made into a powder. The key poisonous substance was tetrodotoxin from the

deadly pufferfish or the Blowfish. You know remember that's, that's that fish

you have to be a special chef to learn how to cook because you might

accidentally poison your customers. If a bokor used sub-lethal... Well you know,

below you know, not enough to kill you but sub-lethal doses on an enemy, it

caused symptoms similar to a zombie. Okay, such as mental confusion, you know, you're

kind of like in a fog. Kind of like that slowness and difficulty walking and

breathing. All right. In this case, it could lead to a temporary paralysis in which

they could be buried in a grave and revived a few days later. So this is what

some of these you know, evil sort of voodoo priests, the bokers did. I think

they did it to scare their other enemies. Like showing look what, look what I

could do to somebody. Where the average people thought this person actually died.

He looked dead. You know, I think it slowed down your heart rate and

everything else to the point where they buried them and then suddenly like three

or four days later, you see the person walking around again. But now they're,

they're practically kind of ... I think there was some brain damage. You know,

with the slowness and not not one that they recover from. Not just from

tiredness. You know, they might have walked around like (groaning sounds ) kind of like

that. In a fog and that's what the original zombies were more like in the

first zombie movies. Okay. So let's continue here. Yeah. In 1968 the director,

George Romero started to popularize the idea of zombies in his movie " Night of

the Living Dead" and then he made a few more after that too. But he took the

original idea of the real zombie. You know, somebody that was you know, dug out

of a grave. You know, now of course Hollywood added a lot of things.

Zombies have never been able to you know, eat people's skulls. They

actually say even if there was such a thing as a zombie. The human jaw is not

strong enough to bite through a skull and eat human brains. So, so of course that

part is total fantasy. And nowadays with the zombie movies, they've completely

changed. The original zombie movie ... the original zombie could barely move. He

was walking very slowly like this and that. Now they can run. They can speed.

They can chase after you. So Hollywood has really you know, given some zombies

practically like superpowers now. So they changed a lot over time. But this is

really where zombie really comes from. So there's some truth based to it. But you

know, Hollywood you know, added a lot of stuff too. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope

you enjoyed it. I hope you found it informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-

bye.