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 Many spells exist in the Mythos to create zombies.
-* Black Binding:  Controllable grave born zombie. Costs 16mp and 1D6 San to cast. The caster pours a ritual liquid over a corpse or into a grave. After a week the caster returns to the body or grave and intones the Black Binding. After a half hour the zombie claws its way out. The caster can control it and it continues to rots as normal.
+* [[Black Binding (spell)]]:  Controllable grave born zombie. Costs 16mp and 1D6 San to cast. The caster pours a ritual liquid over a corpse or into a grave. After a week the caster returns to the body or grave and intones the Black Binding. After a half hour the zombie claws its way out. The caster can control it and it continues to rots as normal.
-* [[Bind Soul]]: A soul is trapped and the body can be turned into a simple zombie.
+* [[Bind Soul (spell)]]: A soul is trapped and the body can be turned into a simple zombie.
-* Create Zombi: Turns a living human into a zombi. Costs 10mp and 4 San.
+* [[Create Zombi (spell)]]: Turns a living human into a zombi. Costs 10mp and 4 San.
 ** The magician or [[Witch|bokor]] paralyzes their victim by making them inhale the powder (POT 25 poison) made from blowfish innards and alkaloids. The target falls into a trance that is indistinguishable from death. They are still conscious but cannot move.
 ** The [[Witch|bokor]] then buries the person alive in a coffin a tube is inserted so they can breath. For every hour the person must make a San roll or lose 1D6 San. If they go insane they accept the will of the bokor to dispel the terror.
 ** Thee nights later the [[Witch|bokor]] comes back and casts the spell. They must make a Pow v. Pow if the victim hasn't already been broken. If the spell succeeds the target is stripped down to 1 Pow and they can be controlled as a zombi by the [[Witch|bokor]]. If the spell fails the sorcerer can just cover the breathing tube and leave the victim to suffocate.
-* Create Zombie: Creates a zombie from a corpse. Cost 1D10 San and 1 Pow. The caster puts an ounce of their blood into the mouth of the corpse, kisses the lips of the corpse and "breathes part of the self" into the body. This is when the Pow is lost. If the spell succeeds the caster may give the zombie simple commands. If the caster dies the zombie become inactive and rots. Part of the invocation refers to the Outer Gods.
+* [[Create Zombie (spell)]]: Creates a zombie from a corpse. Cost 1D10 San and 1 Pow. The caster puts an ounce of their blood into the mouth of the corpse, kisses the lips of the corpse and "breathes part of the self" into the body. This is when the Pow is lost. If the spell succeeds the caster may give the zombie simple commands. If the caster dies the zombie become inactive and rots. Part of the invocation refers to the Outer Gods.
-* [[Create Heart Seeker]] or Seek Heart: Quickens and makes a corpse seek out a fresh heart to replace it's own. Costs 6 San and 8 mp. They must be within a 100 yards and see the corpse to cast it. The corpse has to be drained of blood and the heart removed. This preparation takes 1D3 hours. The corpse jumps up and runs to find the closest human target and tries to rip the victim's heart out and place it in it's own chest. It stands in ecstasy before collapsing and rotting away. The spell lasts the corpses Str+Con+Pow in minutes. If it fails the corpse laments and decays.
+* [[Create Heart Seeker (spell)]] or Seek Heart: Quickens and makes a corpse seek out a fresh heart to replace it's own. Costs 6 San and 8 mp. They must be within a 100 yards and see the corpse to cast it. The corpse has to be drained of blood and the heart removed. This preparation takes 1D3 hours. The corpse jumps up and runs to find the closest human target and tries to rip the victim's heart out and place it in it's own chest. It stands in ecstasy before collapsing and rotting away. The spell lasts the corpses Str+Con+Pow in minutes. If it fails the corpse laments and decays.
 Once a zombie is created a magician might use the spell Eyes of the Zombie to personally control the zombie. Each cast costs 3 mp and 15 San, and is effective for 1D3 months. The eyes of the zombie are removed and put in a chemical bath, the casters eyes are also removed and stored for safety. Then the zombie's eyes are placed in the caster's sockets. They murmur a phrase and they can directly control the zombie body. Replacing the eyes takes a reversal spell.

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	===Lich===		===Lich===
	The term "'''Lich'''" (variously pronounced "leek", "lick", or "litch"; a gutteral "lickh" is probably most accurate) originally referred to a lifeless corpse. An undead form of a sorcerer, essentially a zombie version of the sorcerer's own body containing the sorcerer's slightly degraded (in terms of memory, personality, and sanity) intellect. A sorcerer might thus resurrect himself as a lich for the purpose of obtaining a sort of immortality, often with the intent of inhabiting the decaying corpse for only a limited time before a fresh, living body can be stolen.		The term "'''Lich'''" (variously pronounced "leek", "lick", or "litch"; a gutteral "lickh" is probably most accurate) originally referred to a lifeless corpse. An undead form of a sorcerer, essentially a zombie version of the sorcerer's own body containing the sorcerer's slightly degraded (in terms of memory, personality, and sanity) intellect. A sorcerer might thus resurrect himself as a lich for the purpose of obtaining a sort of immortality, often with the intent of inhabiting the decaying corpse for only a limited time before a fresh, living body can be stolen.
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		+	Mummies may be thought of as a sort of lich, animated from corpses preserved by various sorts of desiccation or drying, most famously including Egyptian mummies preserved by a complicated process culminating in being wrapped in linen, though mummies created through various means may be found throughout the world.

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 Can be thought of as essentially the same creature as the Wight, above.
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 In other stories, Lovecraft helped pioneer the "Evil Dead" model of "zombie" in which the zombies are re-animated by a malignant intellect foreign to the host body as described further below (see e.g. ''[[The Thing on the Doorstep (fiction)|The Thing on the Doorstep]]'' and ''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (fiction)|The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]]'', or in the form of vampire-like creatures (see "[[The Shunned House (fiction)|The Shunned House]]").

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	===Reanimated===		===Reanimated===
−	[[Herbert West]] created zombie-like monsters - "Reanimated" (sometimes "Reanimate" or plural "Reanimates") - with failed medical experiments with chemicals and other means (see "[[Herbert West: Reanimator]]"). The Reanimated are presumed to be debased versions of their living forms with their original intellects destroyed by the process of death and imperfect reanimation. ~~See also [[Child of the Sphinx]], which is similar in spirit, but produced through ancient Egyptian alchemy;~~ Reanimated that have "come back wrong" and are assumed instead to contain a non-human (perhaps alien or demonic) spirit serving as their intellect would more properly be considered "[[Zombie#Deadite\|Deadites]]" instead.~~...~~	+	[[Herbert West]] created zombie-like monsters - "Reanimated" (sometimes "Reanimate" or plural "Reanimates") - with failed medical experiments with chemicals and other means (see "[[Herbert West: Reanimator]]"). The Reanimated are presumed to be debased versions of their living forms with their original intellects destroyed by the process of death and imperfect reanimation. Reanimated that have "come back wrong" and are assumed instead to contain a non-human (perhaps alien or demonic) spirit serving as their intellect would more properly be considered "[[Zombie#Deadite\|Deadites]]" instead. Or, see [[Child of the Sphinx]], which is similar in spirit, but produced through ancient Egyptian alchemy (West apparently created very similar half-human hybrid abominations in his later experiments!)

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 ===Reanimated===
-"Reanimated" (sometimes "Reanimate" or plural "Reanimates") refers corpse brought back to life through chemical means, as by [[Herbert West]]'s serum.  See also [[Child of the Sphinx]], which is similar in spirit, but produced through ancient Egyptian alchemy.  See also "[[Deadite]]s" for Reanimated which have "come back wrong", possessed by unearthly intelligences comparable to Demons.
+[[Herbert West]] created zombie-like monsters - "Reanimated" (sometimes "Reanimate" or plural "Reanimates") - with failed medical experiments with chemicals and other means (see "[[Herbert West: Reanimator]]").  The Reanimated are presumed to be debased versions of their living forms with their original intellects destroyed by the process of death and imperfect reanimation.  See also [[Child of the Sphinx]], which is similar in spirit, but produced through ancient Egyptian alchemy; Reanimated that have "come back wrong" and are assumed instead to contain a non-human (perhaps alien or demonic) spirit serving as their intellect would more properly be considered "[[Zombie#Deadite|Deadites]]" instead....
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 ===Reanimation through Hypnotism===
 [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s famous horror story "[[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (fiction)|Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar]]" makes use of the "super-science" of mesmerism or hypnosis as the mechanism of tying the spirit of a bed-ridden man to his body long past the point of death, with horrifying results.  A similar process seems to have been employed by Lovecraft in "[[Cool Air (fiction)|Cool Air]]", combined with the then new technology of refrigeration to help preserve the undead corpse against decay.

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 Wights might also be considered another word for Machen's "[[Little People]]" or Robert E. Howard's "[[Worms of the Earth]]", in the sense of being malignant, perhaps undead "dwarf"/"elf"/"faerie"/"goblin" creatures that dwell in prehuman tombs, emerging by night to torment the living.
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 Can be thought of as essentially the same creature as the Wight, above.
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 Can be thought of as essentially the same creature as the Wight, above.
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 ===Crawling Ones===
-See [[Crawling One]] for a mass of carrion-eating worms clinging to the shape of a wizard's corpse, animated through the possession of the Wizard's spirit.
+See [[Crawling One]] for a mass of carrion-eating worms clinging to the shape of a wizard's corpse (or alternatively, a single, ancient, wicked worm grown to enormous size disguised after a fashion as a human), animated through the possession of the Wizard's spirit.
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-===Barrow Wight===
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 A Barrow Wight or just Wight - literally "tomb-dweller", might originally have been conceived as a person or other living humanoid creature that has made its home in tombs, though it has come to be understood through modern fantasy fiction as an undead creature that makes its home in tombs, where it jealously guards the grave-goods it was buried with from the living.
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 Wights might also be considered another word for Machen's "[[Little People]]" or Robert E. Howard's "[[Worms of the Earth]]", in the sense of being malignant, perhaps undead "dwarf"/"elf"/"faerie"/"goblin" creatures that dwell in prehuman tombs, emerging by night to torment the living.
 ===Draugr===
 Generally presumed to be a form of [[Zombie#Lich|Lich]], though a Draugr might alternatively be considered to be a corpse reanimated by a "worm", and in that sense "draugr" might be considered another word for "[[Dark One]]"
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 ===Zombies from Essential Salts===
 [[Joseph Curwen]] resurrects bodies - sometimes imperfectly - with the "essential salts" of the dead.  These are essentially "zombies", though the dead more skillfully resurrected in this way may retain their human intellects, and in some cases may even resemble their living forms closely enough to be mistaken for living things.

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	See [[Zombie#Lich\|Lich]], below.		See [[Zombie#Lich\|Lich]], below.

−	Animated '''Mummies''' (dried and preserved corpses) that are brought back to life with their intellects intact, ~~perhaps even~~ capable of using magic, may also be thought of as a variant of Lich.	+	Animated '''Mummies''' (dried and preserved corpses) that are brought back to life with their intellects intact, especially those capable of using magic, may also be thought of as a variant of Lich (see below), or as a zombie variant.