Few things are scarier than the idea of a person coming back from the dead as a horrible monster. Speaking of which, in what year was the English word "zombie" first recorded?

First recorded in 1819, the English term "zombie" was first written as "zombi" in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey. The Oxford English Dictionary lists the origins of the word as West African, with references to the Kongo words "nzambi" and "nzumbi".

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