jonny jeez
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Yeah, it's sourced from the puffer fish.
Nah, that's the sushi thing, you're mixing two mythologies
Yeah, it's sourced from the puffer fish.
Nah, that's the sushi thing, you're mixing two mythologies
Pufferfish provide fugu (sushi) and the toxin (tetrodotoxin) for turning people into a zombie like state.
Read and learn...
Pufferfish can be lethal if not served properly. Puffer poisoning usually results from consumption of incorrectly prepared puffer soup, fugu chiri, or occasionally from raw puffer meat, sashimi fugu. While chiri is much more likely to cause death, sashimi fugu often causes intoxication, light-headedness, and numbness of the lips, and is often eaten for this reason. Puffer's (tetrodotoxin) poisoning deadens the tongue and lips, and induces dizziness and vomiting, followed by numbness and prickling over the body, rapid heart rate, decreased blood pressure, and muscle paralysis. The toxin paralyzes diaphragm muscles and stops the person who has ingested it from breathing. People who live longer than 24 hours typically survive, although possibly after a coma lasting several days. Some people claim to have remained fully conscious throughout the coma, and can often recount events that occurred while they were supposedly unconscious.[citation needed] The paralysis reduces oxygen demands of the body dramatically, but because the toxin does not cross the blood-brain barrier, neural activity in the brain and from the eyes and ears are generally intact. In Voodoo, puffer's poison must be part of the mixture given to the victim to make them a "zombie", most likely because the paralysis and pseudo-comatose effect simulate the death portion of traditional zombie creation.[5]
Although zombie mythology goes waaaaay further back than that. There are elements of zombieism in western pagan religeons a few centuries ago, iirc. The whole Haiti Voodoo religeon is deeply misunderstood due to western witchcraft ideas having been foisted in its place.. etc.
Phew! *mops brow*Damn...Who can argue with Mr Fry.
I am bested.
http://en.wikipedia....ki/Tetrodotoxin
Even the Wiki writers can't agree:
Repeat after me 100 times: "Wikipedia is not a definitive source..."
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Er... What?
Which particular western pagan religions would these be? And which particular version of western Witchcraft?
The modern zombie mythos owes far more to schlock horror B movies leaning on sensationalist propaganda than anything to do with any form of religion at all.
Sam (although you might want to check out The Serpent and the Rainbow)