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- Etymology
- Mythological creature
- Folk beliefs
- Haiti
- Africa
- Kongo
- South Africa
- Origin hypotheses
- Chemical
- Social
- Modern archetype evolution
- Historical influences
- Apocalypse
- Subtext
- Story elements
- Depictions in popular culture
- Film and television
- George A. Romero (1968–1985)
- Relative Western decline (1985–1995)
- Early Asian films (1985–1995)
- Far East revival (1996–2001)
- Global film revival (2001–2008)
- Spillover to television (2008–2015)
- Return to decline (2015–present)
- Literature
- Anime and manga
- Games
- Music
- Metaphorical uses
- Social activism
- Artworks
- Preparedness
- Theoretical academic studies
- See also
- References
thumb|310x310px|A depiction of a zombie at twilight in a field of sugar cane
A zombie (Haitian French: ; ; Kikongo: zumbi) is a legendary undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. In modern popular culture, zombies often appear in horror genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in which a zombie is a dead body reanimated through magic by a bokor sorcerer. Modern media depictions of the reanimation of the dead often do not involve magic but rather science fictional methods such as fungi, radiation, gases, diseases, plants, bacteria, viruses, etc.