A
zombie (
Haitian French:
zombi,
Haitian Creole:
zonbi) is a fictional
undead being created through the reanimation of a human
corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in
horror and
fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, where a
zombie is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic. Modern depictions of zombies do not necessarily involve magic but invoke other methods such as viruses.