Zumbi

and thus there was no danger of the Zumbi, or ghost killing men by reapparition.

as a libation, it would appear, to the zumbi or n’zumbi of the other world, by and with whom they always deem themselves surrounded and connected.

The patients duly offered a banquet to appease the zumbi, but in Modena’s view the only purpose of the ritual was to invoke the demon.