what is a zombie?

http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalgui...

hahaha, No such thing? What do you think happened to Harnwood? haha, Oh I forgot if you dont know about zombies you would be to stupid to know who Harnwood was.

ok Zombie- A corpse reanimated through spiritual energy that is funneled through the encahnter and to the zombie, where the enrgy manifest into 6 pools, or brains that controls the zombies body and allow movement after they have been severed. now heres the funny part, I said the energy is funneled through the Enchanter to the zombie, so when the Zombie bites someone, the encantation is recast and the energy flows through the zombie to the new corpse, after a while the enrgy source runs low, and the newer corpses have less brains and less parts can move after they have been severed. Now once the energy is gone, it draws of the Enchanters life force until it kills him. It is a self Destructive encantation.

[edit] Zombies in Voodoo

A Haitian zombie at twilight in a field of sugar caneAccording to the tenets of Voodoo, a dead person can be revived by a bokor or Voodoo sorcerer. Zombies remain under the control of the bokor since they have no will of their own. "Zombi" is also another name of the Voodoo snake god Damballah Wedo, of Niger-Congo origin; it is akin to the Kongo word nzambi, which means "god." There also exists within the voudon tradition the zombi astral which is a human soul that is captured by a bokor and used to enhance the bokor's power.

In 1937, while researching folklore in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of Felicia Felix-Mentor, who had died and been buried in 1907 at the age of 29. Villagers believed they saw Felicia wandering the streets in a daze thirty years after her death, as well as claiming the same with several other people. Hurston pursued rumors that the affected persons were given powerful drugs, but she was unable to locate individuals willing to offer much information. She wrote:

"What is more, if science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than gestures of ceremony." [1]

Several decades later, Wade Davis, a Canadian ethnobotanist, presented a pharmacological case for zombies in two books, The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (1988). Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and, as a result of his investigations, claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being entered into the blood stream (usually via a wound). The first, coup de poudre (French: 'powder strike'), induced a 'death-like' state because of tetrodotoxin (TTX), its key ingredient. Tetrodotoxin is the same lethal toxin found in the Japanese delicacy fugu, or pufferfish. At near-lethal doses (LD50= 5-8µg/kg)[2], it can leave a person in a state of near-death for several days, while the person continues to be conscious. The second powder, composed of dissociatives like datura, put the person in a zombie-like state where they seem to have no will of their own. Davis also popularized the story of Clairvius Narcisse, who was claimed to have succumbed to this practice. There remains considerable skepticism about Davis's claims,[3] and opinions remain divided as to the veracity of his work,[citation needed] although there is wide recognition among the Haitian people of the existence of the "zombie drug". The Voodoon religion being somewhat secretive in its practices and codes, it can be very difficult for a foreign scientist to validate or invalidate such claims.

Others have discussed the contribution of the victim's own belief system, possibly leading to compliance with the attacker's will, causing psychogenic ("quasi-hysterical") amnesia, catatonia, or other psychological disorders, which are later misinterpreted as a return from the dead. Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing further highlighted the link between social and cultural expectations and compulsion, in the context of schizophrenia and other mental illness, suggesting that schizogenesis may account for some of the psychological aspects of zombification.

also... it is a drink.

A reanimated dead person with no free will and no mind. They exist to do the will of the person who summon them. There is a legend that they exist in Haiti and turn the economy of Haiti around. It also got something to voodoo magic. They work until their flesh rot and the bones are left. Hope it is untrue

In modern popculture it is a reanimated corpse. in a religios viewpoint they are living beings that have their minds or souls dominated by a practitioner of Voodoo or Hoodoo, these people being slaves with no free will of their own.

A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force.

I personally don't believe in such things but people have claimed that it can happen...

que es un zoombie? es una especie clasificada como los no-muertos ,ellos solo obedecen a su dueño, y comen exclusivamente carne , son inmunes a los golpes, o disparos....la unica forma de matarlos es cortarles la cabeza. y ahi va tu estrella.

In myth it's someone who has been reanimated after death, generally mindless creatures who do the bidding of whoever resurrected them.

It's me before my first cup of coffee in the morning.

A tired person

uhh like a corpse that is like brought back from the dead but its like still half decomposed haha