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  • The Serpent and the Rainbow, as a book, is an enthralling real-world look at the chemistry and culture behind voodoo and zombis (not a typo; ‘zombi’ is the spelling author Wade Davis relies upon) and The Rite sounds like a similarly-oriented book.

    Anthony Hopkins Cast in Exorcism Film The Rite | /Film 2010

  • Set in New Orleans, “Delice” is a tale of dark voudou magic, zombis, and vengeance...

    “The New Dead” edited by Christopher Golden (Reviewed by Robert Thompson) Robert 2010

  • I love the zombis from when I/you/they were born and I have created a lot of histories on this thematic.

    Flesh Feast Sacchetto 2008

  • The desire to understand the connection between the creation of zombis and the secret societies had, by the late fall of 1982, extended into an ambition to penetrate the groups themselves.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • There were at least four preparations that could be used to make zombis, and for the proper amount of money I could obtain them all.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • You will meet zombis, you may see zombis come from the earth, you will even think that you understand zombis.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • In turn, I offered my initial hypothesis concerning the use of poisons in the creation of zombis.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • Whatever the circumstances, the capture of the ti bon ange effects a split in the spiritual components of the victim and creates not one but two complementary kinds of zombis.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • In Haiti, the fear is not of being harmed by zombis; it is fear of becoming one.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • Hence, as we traveled north to try to obtain a poison from Marcel Pierre, our conversation ran from zombis to high school yearbooks, proms, college admission boards, and back to the loa.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

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