These early zombie stories were influenced by colonialism. Southey means the guy behaves like he doesn’t have any free will. Robert Southey publishes History of Brazil, in which ‘zombi’ refers to the elected chief of the maroons in Pernambuco. The word ‘zumbi’ refers to the apparition of the dead person, but they walk around and torment the living, much like contemporary zombies. The word ‘zumbi’ appears with a meaning closer to how we use it today in A History of the Voyages and Travels of Capt. Back then, zombis were spirits or ghosts, not the walking dead as we know them today.
A woman is tricked into thinking she’s an invisible spirit called a zombi. The word ‘zombi’ first appeared in Le Zombi du grand Perou by Corneille Blessebois. These walking-dead stories are to do with the beliefs of pre-Northern Europeans - that the dead could still see, hear and feel. They loiter around the first every night and the living become unnerved. It was only later that the walking dead became unwelcome. The living believed that drowned people had been well received by the sea-goddess, Ran, if they attended their own funeral feast. In this story, the living aren’t especially worried about the walking dead.
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This story is full of the walking dead, e.g. The 1200s gave us ‘ Eyrbyggja Saga’ (‘Story of the People of Eyrr’).
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