zombi

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Consequently the creole negro fears everything living which he meets after dark upon a lonely road a stray horse, a cow, even a dog; and mothers quell the naughtiness of their children by the threat of summoning a zombi- cat or a zombi-creature of some kind.

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  1. several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
  2. someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
  3. a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  4. a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
  5. (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body

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  • "My first meeting with the man who would send me on my quest for the Haitian zombi poison occurred on a damp miserable winter's day in late February 1974", that's the first line from one of the books in my own collection and an example of the kind of snippet you can have sent to you twice each day by Cool Link - FoodTube November 28, 2007 06: 57 —  Kris Abel's Tech Life
  • But they will slip right back to the TV zombi mode again. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • If US banks don't admit their true losses, and if the White House keeps propping them up, they will become like Japan's bankrupt ` zombi 'banks in the 1990's: dead men walking. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • "My first meeting with the man who would send me on my quest for the Haitian zombi poison occurred on a damp miserable winter's day in late February 1974", that's the first line from one of the books in my own collection and an example of the kind of snippet you can have sent to you twice each day by Cool Link - FoodTube November 28, 2007 00: 57 —  Kris Abel's Tech Life
  • Yup, that's where I am tonight, a resident of zombi land. —  kat's random thoughts
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