Archaeologists in England have found evidence of corpses dug up and mutilated in the Middle Ages in an effort to prevent the dead from being resurrected and to terrorize the living. The discovery was made in the medieval village of Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire. The theory is based on the discovery of human remains.
The allure of zombies has taken off in recent years, thanks to the abundance of zombie-themed movies, television shows, novels, and comics. But the belief that the dead can rise from their graves is by no means a modern superstition. Archaeologists in England think they’ve found evidence of corpses dug up and mutilated in the Middle Ages, in an effort to prevent the dead from being resurrected and to terrorize the living. The theory is based on the discovery of human remains in the medieval village of Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire. The corpses had clearly been exhumed and then burned or dismembered. Archaeologists, from the University of Southampton and from historic England, have considered various explanations for this unusual treatment of the dead, including the possibility of cannibalism during a famine or a massacre of strangers. However, they concluded that the hypothesis that best matched the evidence was in fact that the medieval villagers were attempting to prevent the corpses from being resurrected after death.
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Our modern understanding of zombies is believed to have roots in Haitian and West African beliefs such as Vodou.
The word “zombie” is thought to be of African origin, possibly originating from words such as ndzumbi, which means “corpse” in the Mitsogo language, or nzambi, which means “spirit of the dead” in the Kongo language.
The 1932 American film White Zombie is generally cited as the first zombie film ever made.
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