The Haitian belief in zombies stems from a religion called Voodoo. Voodoo is a type of sorcery revolving around spell casting, dolls, and other things considered to be evil. Haitians consider zombies to be dead slaves who are now soulless because they attempted to die and returned to the plantations to work for eternity. Slave owners would tell there slaves this story to keep them from committing suicide, because they would of course lose their workers. The reason I say that they told this “story” was because of course it was not even close to being true.
The slaves believed their owners about this supposed myth because they would have family member that was supposedly dead for years show up and work on a plantation out of nowhere. They
The slaves believed their owners about this supposed myth because they would have family member that was supposedly dead for years show up and work on a plantation out of nowhere. They