Appearing in voodoo cultures, these creatures were featured in "Night of the Living Dead"
Such soulless creatures are terrifying in any cultural context in 
which ... Each of the specific fears mentioned have merit, and are even... [DOC] [TLE] Zombies, Mythology, and the Origins of the Zombie Genre  ERIC ... [PAR] Nov 29, 2015 ... Romero's zombies were meant to be ghouls ... a creature linked with black magic 
and Voodoo and having nothing to do with eating ... Night of the Living Dead 
does not refer to the creatures as zombies.