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How to Make a Zombie

izombi.JPGNo we don't mean with a Gamecube, we mean a zombie zombie, like from Haiti. Turns out the secret ingredient is Puffer Fish. The site we're linking to here is a little dry on design, but it's a damn cool read. A full ingredient list and site link after the jump.


Zombie Recipe
To make a zombie requires:

* one freshly, almost dead, person (see below)
* some human bone and flesh
* several varieties of exotic plants
* a few reptiles
* one type of worm
* a centipede
* a special type of spider
* a puffer fish

"So What's Up with the Zombies?

In Haitian folklore, a zombie is someone that is reanimated shortly after death by a bokor or voodoo witch doctor. The bokor typically robs the fresh grave, makes the zombie and sells the new walking dead into slavery. At least that's one version. Another version of this myth caught the attention of anthropologist Wade Davis. In the version that Davis heard, the victim is targeted by the bokor who poisons them with a powder that will slow their heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rate to the point that they would appear dead. The bokor then revives the poisoned individual after removing him from his fresh grave (if they're lucky). "

How to Make a Zombie