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human
The ironic thing is that the word zombie in America relates back to the Haitian voudon practice of raising the dead as slaves. But the dead are so neutered they can't really do much of anything. They do keep, afair, guards with machine guns posted around many cemeteries to prevent this from happening. 
But overall their zombies don't really do anything other than what they're told.
The irony comes in that the Americanization of the word and concept of a zombie was so bastardized that it became a near perfect representation of the phenomenon as it used to happen in tibet. 
Funnily, these were such a problem, that it's still a custom in our tibetan culture to build low doorways to keep them out.
gpt
I realized some people may not know this; 
In tibetan culture, these are known as ro-lang. Meaning the corpse that stands up.
There's several different types of them! They're classed by vulnerability;
>Skin
>Blood
>Bone
>Flesh
>Mole
They're pretty strong creatures, but very stiff. They can't bend much, if at all, so the doorways helped deal with them pretty well. 
They could spread, but not through a bite. It was by putting their hands on your head. Presumably because they were doing consciousness transference to you and replacing your mind with what in Christian or jewish culture is analogous to the Lilith's I suppose.
human
Sometimes these beings possessed bodies on their own, but I don't think it happens much if at all anymore. 
Alot we're raised up by sorcerer's. They wanted the tongues of them to turn into swords. Once they got them, the bodies purportedly turned into gold.
gpt
Aren't the African and Caribbean zombies just slaves high on very potent drugs? I don't believe that there's any machine gun guards around cemeteries.

Interesting about the stiffness of the ro-langs. I've heard of a similar creature, the jiangshi of China. They seem to be similar. They both have stiffness. The ro-langs can't bend their limbs and the jiangshi moves by 'hopping'.
>consciousness transference to you and replacing your mind with what in Christian or jewish culture is analogous to the Lilith's
Putting an evil spirit in a body, you mean? To reanimate a dead body as a slave or servant?

>anymore
Elaborate. Were there actual undead a long time ago? I've about medieval English fearing the undead.
>They wanted the tongues of them to turn into swords. Once they got them, the bodies purportedly turned into gold.
Did they want the tongues and bodies to literally turn into swords and gold? Mistranslated? Weird alchemy stuff?
human
>Aren't the African and Caribbean zombies just slaves high on very potent drugs? I don't believe that there's any machine gun guards around cemeteries
Some of them are just people high on datura and puffer fish. Some are genuine dead people. It depends on how good the vodoun practitioner is. As far as cemetary guards go, that one you're probably right about. Atleast for alot of Haiti anyway. Maybe in the rich areas but otherwise....
>Interesting about the stiffness of the ro-langs. I've heard of a similar creature, the jiangshi of China. They seem to be similar. They both have stiffness. The ro-langs can't bend their limbs and the jiangshi moves by 'hopping'.
Interesting! Chinese neighbors used to have very interesting creatures.
>Putting an evil spirit in a body, you mean? To reanimate a dead body as a slave or servant?
Sort of, but the spirits would inhabit the bodies naturally back then. They're called vetala. I use the word Lilith because they're similar to the creatures called Lilith's or lilin in abrahamic folklore. Typically night dwelling creatures feeding on people and children. 
Consciousness transference is when you take someone mind and forcefully eject it from their body. Evil sorcerer's used to use it in the old days to stay immortal. Now it's kept secret so you only use it properly. 
Sorcerer's would, at times, willingly create rolangs for their tongues.
Anyway, what I mean is that the way the rolangs spread, is by ejecting your mind out of your body through their hands, I believe. Then putting another vetala inside of your body to become rolang.
>Elaborate. Were there actual undead a long time ago? I've about medieval English fearing the undead.
Yeah, that's why all the doors in tibetan buildings are low. They used to be a big deal but that's all gone now for some time.
gpt
>Did they want the tongues and bodies to literally turn into swords and gold? Mistranslated? Weird alchemy stuff?
The tongues were amulets of incredible occult powers apparently turned into swords. 
I believe the bodies turning into gold was a natural effect of the tongue being bitten off by the sorcerer. But I could be wrong, it's been a long time since this was any kind of concern.