Voodoo Zombie Powder

Now if your a bokor, the spiritual sorcerer in Voodoo culture, then you would know what different powders that you transfuse with corpses to make them a zombie.  Three main ingredients are puffer fish, the marine toad, and the hyla tree frog.  All of these animals contain some kind of poison that affects the human mind.  Intresting enough, the poison found in puffer fish can cause paralysis and eventually death.  But if your already dead, it doesn't matter to you if the poison is going to cause death.  But it will also prevents the subject from reacting to stimuli, giving you what we think as traditional zombie characteristics.

By Andrew Hanawalt

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