I know that as a zombie, your first priority is to eat brains, and that if you are bitten by a zombie, you become a zombie also. If that zombie is successful, it will complete it's mission and eat your brains. Then off you'll trot with a new sense of purpose.
But I'm confused about where the first zombies came from.
When I went on a ghost tour in Salem, the woman in the top hat told us that the idea of zombies actually comes from people who would be "not dead yet" of the bubonic plague, and who would occasionally rise from the grave like "WTF?"
So local governments told everyone to watch out for brain eating zombies, and to stake them right through the heart should one appear in the parlor.
I'm hoping that a zombie historian, occultist, or pop culture nerd can set me straight on this matter.
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