Medieval Zombies

[dog_on_the_moon]

The earliest accounts of "zombie " or  Revenants as the church called them,  occurs in the writings of William of Newburg 1136 - 1199?. He gives an account of a zombie rampage near Anantis Castle (Dumfriesshire, Scotland). he describes how villagers were beaten up by a vagrant monster. Searching for the source of this monster they opened graves and

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[sensibleken]

Nah, we got older than that in irish mythology. In the book of invasions the Tuath De Dannan leader DAghda had a magic cauldron that would resurect the corpses of slain warriors that could only be killed again by stabbing them in the back of the neck.

[dog_on_the_moon]

Heh Heh I should have known the Irish were first !!

Reminds me of a joke.

English Archeologists discovered networks of copper cable under some cities and concluded that the English had telephone services 200 years ago.

Scottish archeologists dug under their cities and found deep buried fibre optic cable and concluded the scottish had broadband 100 years ago.

The Irish - not to be outdone - hired thousands of archeologists, dug under everything and everywhere, but found absolutely NOTHING. They concluded that the Irish had gone wireless centuries ago.

LOL cheers

[sensibleken]

hell yeah!