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Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

As a general concept, we can define a zombie as a dead person who comes back to life and feeds on human brains .According to popular belief, a person bitten by a zombie becomes one of them.As usually happens with all fictional creatures, zombies are known by several names depending on the moment of history or the part of the world where we are.It is very possible that the term «zombie« comes from some ancient African word, continent more rooted with the voodoo, and from which this concept was exported.Later you can know in detail the most famous types of zombies that exist.

In this article we will describe some types of zombies that have existed throughout the current fiction.Series, books or blockbusters have turned to the zombie theme as an argument.In each of them, there are a variety of living dead that differ of the others in some mat ices.If you want to expand your knowledge of these beings and know much more about them, this text is made to measure. Discover them!

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Zombie types | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

1.Zombies vudu

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

This kind of undead is the one that originated thanks to the vudu sorcery.The peculiarity of these is that they are still living people who have ingested a concoction or potion of a sorcerer to bend at will .The magician can use them at will, can commit terrible acts without feeling remorse, since they are not owners of his body or of their actions.The people who become this kind of zombie are slaves of the sorcerer who transforms them.

2.The infected

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

They are not undead themselves, since they are people infected by a terrible disease or bac weapon incurable teriology.Contagion is usually caused by blood or other fluids and most infected zombies tend to have superhuman strength.

One of the most famous series today, The Walking Dead and its complementary series Fear The Walking Dead , reflects this idea or zombie types.

3.The creeps

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

It would be people affected by some kind of space parasite , making the body holder not suffer pain despite everything the damage that they do to him and he has an uncontrollable desire to kill.You can see zombies of this type in movies like Nigth of the Creeps or Slither .

4.The white walkers

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

This type of zombie appears in one of the most successful series of the last decades.In Game of Thrones , white walkers threaten to destroy the known world by bringing a long night that will plunge everyone into the most absolute darkness.They have supernatural powers and can create at their will a huge army of undead, known as the Others.Only can be done with valyrio steel weapons , an extremely rare and peculiar material.

5.Draugr

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

The origin of this type of zombies goes back to Nordic mythology , it was said that the person who was evil and died on the ice without receiving burial became this kind of zombie.They are one of the most aggressive types of zombies, and they appear mostly in movies or books made in Scandinavian countries.

6.Returns

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

Generally, soldiers dying in battle and not knowing how, come back to life with a terrible thirst for blood .People who are bitten by these terrible zombies are they transmit their superhuman strength and their immunity to practically any damage.

7.The carriers

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

The only motivation for these zombies is to spread the disease they carry to everyone who They can .For this reason, their victims do not die when they are bitten, but they are infected with the disease that makes them bearers.It may seem ironic, but these zombies only spread their disease to people who are totally healthy or with good physical skills.The perfect example of these types of zombies can be seen in the famous movie "World War Z" Brad Pitt.

8.The boneys

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

They are, as if we were saying, zombies in the last state of decomposition .At the beginning of their transformation they are still alive, although little little by little they are losing flesh and becoming less and less human.In the end, they become a kind of skeletons that devour everything that comes before them completely losing all their humanity and memories.

9.Ghouls

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

These types of zombies, are created by extraterrestrial weapons .They are dead people, who due to exposure to these space weapons they become undead.They are not cannibalistic and they move in a slow and uncoordinated way.These kinds of zombies are the ones that appeared in the first movies that featured these beings as protagonists.

10.The non cursed dead

Types of zombies | 10 kinds of terrifying undead

Through a curse, a deceased person can be brought back to life.They appear in many movies and are often dead many years, being directed by a person who wants to have an army of zombies.They don't turn anyone into a zombie, but they can kill anyone who goes against the curse that transforms them .

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