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Zombies are the most popular mystical heroes of mass culture, along with vampires and werewolves. Having seen enough movies like “Resident Evil”, “Night of the Living Dead”, “28 days later” and others, where the eerie-looking creatures that used to be humans roam singly or in packs, eagerly devouring everything that moves, people, willy-nilly, begin to believe in their existence and with horror waiting for the end of the world caused by the invasion of these creatures. But there are Are Zombies Really?
Unreasonable, but purposeful
First of all, let’s decide on the very concept of “zombies.” Now so called and animated in some weird way the dead, and still living people, under some influence lost control of themselves and their bodies and limp obeying someone’s orders. But obviously, these are two completely different categories, and they should not be together in the “squad” of zombies. Let’s try to separate the flies from cutlets.
Horror stories about the dead, resurrected by the will of black sorcerers or evil gods are abundant in the folklore of any people. Yes and literary tradition is rich. For example, in the Epic of Gilgamesh (XVIII-XVII centuries BC) the goddess Ishtar promises:
I will make a path deep into the depths, I will raise the dead so that living devoured. “There will be less then living than dead!”
In later times, this misanthropic idea the bloodthirsty goddess has been developed in many books and films, narrating about the collapse of human civilization and attempts A small group of people survive surrounded by aggressive zombies.
Yes, and, in fact, the modern archetype of zombies – unreasonable, but the purposeful resurrected dead cannibals acting as as a rule, in large groups – in mass culture was largely defined by George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (although the term “zombie” is not used in it).
The worst thing is the eyes
But at the same time, there is a lot of documentary evidence. about the living dead. So, in 1929, the New York Times reporter William Seabrook published The Island of Magic, in which he spoke about of his life in Haiti, in the house of the famous witch Maman Seli.
Here is how he describes his meeting with the zombies: “The worst thing is eyes. And this is not my imagination at all. It was actually eyes dead, but not blind, but burning, defocused, invisible. Therefore, the face was scary. So empty as if behind him there is nothing. Not just lack of expression, but lack of expression the ability to express. At this point, I have already seen so much in Haiti. things beyond ordinary human experience that momentarily completely disconnected and thought, or rather, felt: “Great God, maybe all this nonsense is the truth? ’’ ”
It is believed that the Haitian Felicia was photographed in this photo. Felix-Mentor, who died of a sudden illness in 1907. And in 1936 they found her: she wandered naked near her brother’s farm. AND the husband and brother recognized in her the one whom they themselves almost buried thirty years ago.
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American writer Zora Hurston, who visited Haiti in 1938, recorded from the islanders a story about the girl Mary, who died in 1909. Five years after her death, she was seen in the window some home in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, former school friends. The owner of the house drove them away, flatly refusing to give any explanation whatsoever.
Maria’s father lifted the entire surrounding population to his feet; tackle the police case. When they entered the house, neither the owner nor Mary was not there anymore. Meanwhile, rumors spread around the city, and so to calm public opinion, the girls’s grave was torn up. In a coffin lay a skeleton too long for Mary. He was dressed in clothes, in which buried the girl.
The islanders believed that the sorcerer dug up Mary and turned into zombie. And supposedly then, when he died, the widow gave the girl Catholic priest. And as if after that the parents managed take her from Haiti to France, disguised as a nun, and later there her visited brother. Such a successful ending raises doubts about the veracity of this story.
More similar to the truth is another story that 3. Hurston I heard from the mother of a dead boy. The night after his funeral sister suddenly heard on the street singing and noise. She recognized her brother’s voice and her cry woke the whole house. Pets saw the ominous window procession of the dead and with them the boy buried the day before.
When he, with difficulty rearranging his legs, caught up with the window, everything heard his mournful cry. “But such is the horror inspired by these beings, writes 3. Hurston, that even a mother and sister are not ventured out onto the street and tried to save him. ” disappeared from sight. After that, the boy’s sister went crazy.
The magic power of telekinesis?
Evidence of the resurrection from the dead by Tibetan monks is known. monasteries, Siberian shamans, sorcerers and healers of many other nations. But science completely denies this very possibility. TO for example, irreversible destruction begins in the human brain already four minutes after death. Although the zombie brain does not seem to be needed – if only they would move and bite their teeth into living flesh.
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But there’s the catch: a few hours after most ATP (a nucleotide that plays exclusively an important role in the exchange of energy and substances in the body) in the muscles breaks up. And ensuring walking, assault and gearing requires constant blood supply to the muscles (even discarding the fact that muscles should be controlled by the nervous the most unviable system under conditions of hypoxia).
Since the corpse does not have blood circulation, respiration and other life-supporting processes then muscles (which are viable the first 10 hours after death) will not run anywhere.
So a sorcerer can make people walk and do others body movements, it doesn’t matter if it’s fresh or half-rotten, or in general the skeleton is only the magic power of telekinesis. Only really waste of energy will succeed. Much more effective and it’s easier to hit the adversary with this same force directly, without intermediaries in the form of zombies.
Secret potion
So, most likely, real zombies are not dead, but living people. Contrary to the many superstitions and legends surrounding Haitian voodoo sorcerers – bokors, their supernatural power based on a completely prosaic foundation. They own the art of turning the intended victim into a zombie, sprinkling it with food (or letting it smell) a certain drug.
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According to some reports, such a potion is nerve-paralytic tetrodotoxin venom extracted from double-toothed fish. Under his action a person falls into a deep lethargy: breathing stops, the heartbeat slows down so much that the pulse is practically not groping, glassy eyes – in a word, all signs of death, moreover, even an experienced doctor.
The person is buried, and after a while the sorcerer retrieves it from the grave. Using another secret potion, he brings “dead” in the sense, but not quite: the brain departments responsible for higher nervous activity remain blocked. Human turns into a zombie – a creature completely submissive to the will of the owner and able to perform only the simplest tasks: eat, drink, sleep, work on a sugar plantation.
He walks slowly and hesitantly, articulate not to speak maybe in time and space is not oriented. In such zombies can be quite a long time, but from of time, the sorcerer must nourish him with his potion, so that he does not He recovered. And all the dances, spells and other rituals used when turning a victim into a zombie, this is for entourage and support authority.
Will the apocalypse begin?
But from people you can make zombies, and in droves, and modern scientific methods. For example, create and run some kind of virus. In nature, there are abnormal infectious proteins, which are called prions. They cause, for example, such diseases, like mad cow. Prions blocking certain parts of the brain and leaving others intact, it’s quite possible to create laboratories.
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And if you attach them to a virus, at least the same flu, yes run into the environment – that’s the army of zombies is ready, and on Earth the apocalypse will begin.
You can zombify people with psychotronic weapons. Fundamental media will play a role in this using the 25th frame “and other similar tricks.
At the call of the heart …
Look around – there are a lot of zombies among us. It’s not scary cinematic freaks, but quite respectable people, some of them go in suits, work in banks, drive cars and dress according to the latest fashion. But they don’t have their own thoughts, opinions and are easily amenable to external influences.
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These are people who watch false news on TV and they are completely trusted, they read something on the Internet – and they also immediately believe. They believe everything that they are told. Head, mind, common sense zombies are permanently off. ‘Why think when there is a TV, advertising, Internet ?! Good uncle in “zomboyaschik” broadcasts how cool it is to have a new iPhone model, and they already they run to the store to buy this completely unnecessary gadget.
Such people who do not know how to filter information are easy and welcome booty for those in power and those in their service political consultants. It’s right, based on modern scientific methods to build a process of fooling the population – and now crowds of zombies “at the call of the heart” go to kill in no way guilty people. And this is really scary …
Valery NIKOLAEV
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