Voodoo is a religious practice that grew up in Haiti after the Spanish imported tens of thousands of African slaves to the island, bringing their beliefs and religion with them. One of the core beliefs in the religion is that some powerful voodoo practitioners have the ability to resurrect the dead, bringing them back to life in a form Hollywood has made well known to all of us. In this episode I tell you all about the secret history of zombies.

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Notes: https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/people-politics/papa-doc-duvalier-the-voodoo-president-who-killed-kennedy/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,876967,00.htmlhttps://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/how-america-erased-the-tragic-history-of-the-zombie/412264/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043RSJ5O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HD7I7IE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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