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A study of these beings includes pictures of Felicia Felix-Mentor, who swept the grounds of a hospital. Wade Davis investigated stories of these beings in The Serpent and the Rainbow. Female caplatas and male bokors (20[1])create talismans (0[1])and these beings, as described by (0[1])Zora Neale Hurston in Tell My Horse. (20[1])William Seabrook’s (20[1])book The Magic Island brought public attention to these (20[1])beings, which (*) Baron Samedi (0[1])prevents (0[2])people (0[1])from (0[1])becoming. (10[1]0[2])The modern Western (0[1])idea of these beings (0[1])is often traced back to a George (10[1])A. Romero (10[1])film trilogy. (10[2])Clairvius (10[2]0[1])Narcisse claimed that he was given pufferfish venom and enslaved after Haitian Vodou turned him into one (0[1])of these (10[2])beings. (10[3]0[1])For 10 points, name these monsters (10[1])central to the film Night of the Living (10[3])Dead. (10[5])■END■ (10[10])

ANSWER: zombies [accept zonbi or zombi; prompt on the dead or living dead or undead before end]
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