nzambi

The word probably comes from the Kongo word nzambi, which more or less means “spirit of a dead person.”

The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

We know for certain that the boat the First—the original Liverpool nzambi—arrived in was called the SS Heartbeat.

PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010

But the railroads boomed at the turn of the century, and it soon became more difficult for our nzambi to stay hidden, so when the Liverpool sewer system was completed in 1929, the First went underground, both literally and figuratively.

PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010

Fearing detection if he left the sewers, the nzambi had to be extremely stealthy in order to acquire his nutritional fix: He would climb up through the sewage line, procure and eat the first brain in sight, zombify the victim, then maybe drag the undead body back into the sewers—or maybe not, depending on his mood.

PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010

Come 1840, there were three train yards, where the nzambi could not only hide undetected but also find unsuspecting living humans to feed on.

PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010

Another is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person."

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Another is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person."

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Another is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person."

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Weeks later, relatives of the supposedly deceased would witness their lost loved ones in a soporific malaise, working in the fields of wealthy landowners, and assume them to be nzambi

the-inbetween.com 2008

"Zombi" is also the name of the voodoo snake god of Niger-Congo origin; it is akin to the Kongo word nzambi, which means "god."

Wacky Mommy 2008