The early Bronze Age peoples of Iran called them 'Devas.' The practitioners of the Western-Afro-Catholic religion Vodun (often erroneously called Voodoo) gave them their popular name today, 'Zombies.' Of course, they are not the flesh-eating Zombies of the Romero films (these have more in common with ghouls, or Buddhist Hungry Ghosts; entities
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