Zombie's, Real or Just Good For Halloween Outfits

One of the most feared creatures of modern horror has to be the zombie a modern favourite for Halloween Costumes - lumbering around in his or her tragic trance with no soul and - more terrifying - no way to die (well he's already dead). All he wants is human meat, more specifically live, jelly-like brains. His pale pallor and torn-away flesh make him hideous to look at - which of course, make him great for Halloween outfits. This uncoordinated and soulless creature appears unstoppable. No stake (vampires) or endless cups of caffeine (Freddy Krueger) will help you here.

So how do you become a zombie? And, more usefully, learn to kill one (actually make that more than one as they tend to lumber around in groups). To buy a Zombie Costume for Halloween just search on-line for Zombie Halloween Costumes. In the meantime we'll give you a quick potted history here of the creature which worryingly has its roots in real life West African mythology.

Zombies were believed to be come from Haitian slave plantation workers. The only way to prevent the dead body becoming a zombie at that time apparently was to remain at the unfortunate corpse’s graveside watching over it until its flesh began to rot. Legend has it only those who had recently passed over were targeted and used as obedient, unquestioning servants (i.e. zombies).

Another recorded zombie emergence was in Hierakonpolis in Egypt during a British dig where an explorer happened upon a tomb containing a partially decomposed body. The brain had been infected with a virus, and the tomb was covered in scratch marks where the body had attempted to claw its way out.

Being buried alive and re-emerging would also count as being a tad zombie-like. This would happen in past times when medicine was not as advanced. Catatonia - a particular affliction of schizophrenia - has also been attributed to the zombie legend.

We've famous film director Bela Lugosi to thank for the entrance into popular culture of this creature in the early 1930s in his film White Zombie. The zombies lay passive for decades until 1968 when George Romero revived them for Night of the Living Dead which is where most of the inspiration comes from for the modern Halloween Halloween Outfits and have been around as a Halloween Fancy Dress Costume

ever since. Their emergence was - scarily for us today - the result of a nuclear spill.

So how do you kill a zombie? Well, getting back to their origins, West African legend says if you feed a zombie salt it will return to the grave - all very neat and tidy with not too much exertion involved for us living beings. By far the most successful method is by destroying the brain first, usually with a sharp instrument (this can prove tricky!). Once achieved you should then burn the body to prevent any resurrection, or should that be re-resurrection. So if you need some ideas for your Halloween Outfits this Halloween perhaps you could become one of the living dead.