Things learned in podcasts

[melaniesuzanne]

The fun folks at Night of the Living Podcast say that mummies are not zombies. This is because mummies are golems and are animated by magic

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[melaniesuzanne]

You're not wrong.

[melebeth]

I'm pointing someone at this post who will geek out with you in extremis.

[boneshard]

They're wrong on so many levels.

Mummies are animated by the pure, malevolent force of the tormented soul (KA!) of the mummified-alive subject.

Golems are inanimate clay statues brought to life by a Rabbi using a strip of paper with a charm written on it.

Zombies are voodoo-made cheap labor. Flesh-eating corpses were called "ghouls" in Night of the Living Dead, and "Romero Zombies" became the popular designation, but not the film's.

Brain eating O'Bannon zombies are created by 245-Trioxin. Romero "Ghouls" (or Zombies) were made by radiation from a returning Venus probe/satellite.

The whole abuse of the word "Golem"... arghhh! This stems from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons- where most of the world gets its mythology these past 30 years. It makes me want to smack some people with a statue of Judah Loew ben Bezalel.

[hannnahkl]

And then there's Gollum, who throws another level of confusion into the whole thing. I actually had this conversation in elementary school: "Is Gollum a golem?" "No." "But his name is Gollum." "Yeah, but he's totally not a golem. Except that he's Gollum."

[ironrose]

I believe that mummies and zombies have a few differences