Name: 喪屍的起源竟然是...？😱 (Where Zombies Come From)
Uploaded: 2026-02-06T17:03:34.000Z
Duration: 7 min 25 s

Here in the beautiful island of Haiti, among the tobacco and cane sugar field workers, black magic voodooism for the worship of the serpent honeycombs the entire country.

在美麗的海地島上，在煙草和甘蔗田的工人之間，崇拜蛇的魔法 voodooism 籠罩了整個國家。

When the US occupied Haiti for two decades in the early 20th century, it only intensified Americans fascination with a part of its religious religious culture known as voodoo.

在 20 世紀初，美國佔領海地二十年期間，反而加深了美國人對其宗教文化一部分，也就是 voodoo 的迷戀。

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Spiritual beliefs and practices originating in West Africa, where European colonial powers enslaved thousands and thousands of people and brought them to the island.

這些精神信仰和習俗源自西非，當時歐洲殖民強權奴役了成千上萬的人，並將他們帶到島上。

In the previous centuries, that fascination, like the occupation, had a racist strain, a combination of fear, anxiety and hostility toward the so called black magic of a primitive culture.

在過去的幾個世紀裡，這種迷戀，就像佔領一樣，帶有種族主義色彩，結合了對所謂原始文化的黑魔法的恐懼、焦慮和敵意。

It was during this period that this guy, William Seabrook, journalist, occultist and generally eccentric minor celebrity, visited Haiti to report on the occupation, but

正是在這段時期，這位記者、神祕主義者，也是一位古怪小名人的 William Seabrook 先生，來到海地報導佔領情況，但

found himself drawn instead to voodoo, resulting in a 1929 book entitled the Magic Island.

卻反而被 voodoo 所吸引，並於 1929 年出版了一本名為《魔法島》的書。

Though it was and is accused of being sensational and insensitive, the book captured the public's interest and one chapter in particular has had a lasting impact on popular culture.

儘管這本書被指責聳人聽聞且不敏感，但它引起了公眾的興趣，其中一個章節尤其對流行文化產生了持久的影響。

In Dead Men Working in the Cane Field, Seabrook effectively introduces the world to zombies.

在《甘蔗田裡的死人》一章中，Seabrook 成功地向世界介紹了殭屍。

The zombie, they say, is a soulless human corpse, still dead, but

他們說，殭屍是一個沒有靈魂的人類屍體，仍然是死的，但

taken from the grave and endowed by sorcery with a mechanical semblance of life.

被從墳墓中取出，並被魔法賦予了機械般的生命跡象。

The zombies of Haitian folklore are controlled by a sorcerer called a bokor, who uses them for his own ends, often for menial work resembling slave labor.

海地的民間傳說中，殭屍是由一位叫做 bokor 的巫師操控，巫師會利用殭屍來達成自己的目的，通常是從事類似奴工的雜役。

And by the way, they don't eat or crave human flesh at this point.

而且說到這裡，這時候的殭屍是不會吃人，也不會渴望人肉的。

Once in the popular imagination, it took only three years for this conception of the zombie to find its way to Hollywood, to a film industry eager for another monster.

殭屍的形象一旦進入大眾的想像，僅僅三年時間，這個殭屍的觀念就傳到了好萊塢，那裡有一個渴望新怪物的電影產業。

After the successes of Dracula and Frankenstein.

在《德古拉》和《科學怪人》獲得成功之後。

Drawing from the Magic island and a Broadway play, 1932's White Zombie became the first zombie movie ever set in Haiti.

這部 1932 年的電影《白殭屍》，取材自《魔法島》和一齣百老匯戲劇，成為了第一部以海地為背景的殭屍電影。

The story stars Bela Lugosi as a voodoo sorcerer who helps a plantation owner turn the object of his desire into a zombie so that she'll be with him.

電影由飾演 voodoo 巫師的 Bela Lugosi 主演，他幫助一位種植園主人將他心儀的對象變成殭屍，以便能與她在一起。

The terror here is in a white couple being controlled in the same way as the Haitians.

這裡的恐怖之處在於，一對白人夫婦也以同樣的方式被控制，就像海地人一樣。

The white zombie wasn't as successful as Dracula or Frankenstein.

《白殭屍》不像《德古拉》或《科學怪人》那樣成功。

It did spawn a number of zombie films along these lines in the following years and decades.

不過，在接下來的幾年和幾十年裡，它確實催生了許多類似的殭屍電影。

Each follows from the conception that Seabrook outlined in his book Slave.

每一部都源自 Seabrook 在他的書《Slave》中提出的概念。

In 1966, Hammer films Plague of the Zombies created undead that look like the ones we know today.

1966 年，Hammer films 的《Plague of the Zombies》創造了我們今天所知的殭屍形象。

But Haitian voodoo was still the touchstone.

But in 1968, everything changed, thanks to this man, George Romero, and

不過在 1968 年，一切都改變了，這都要歸功於這個人，George Romero，以及

his skeleton crew of collaborators who made the zombie film that reinvented the genre Night of the Living Dead.

他那群骨幹的合作者，他們拍出了重新定義了這個類型的殭屍電影《Night of the Living Dead》。

It's impossible to overstate Romero's impact.

Romero 的影響力再怎麼強調都不為過。

Every zombie film, or comic or TV show, whatever, made in the last 50 years is a direct descendant of this film.

過去 50 年來製作的每一部殭屍電影、漫畫或電視節目，都是這部電影的直系後代。

First and foremost, he dispensed with the master slave dynamic.

最重要的是，他捨棄了主僕關係的設定。

His undead aren't under the control of anyone or anything.

他的不死生物不受任何人或任何事控制。

For some unknown reason, maybe scientific, maybe not, they are reanimated as pure instinct, scouring the earth on whatever limbs they have left, seeking one thing, the living.

出於某種未知原因，可能是科學的，也可能不是，牠們只是憑著純粹的本能復活，用牠們僅存的肢體在地上搜尋，只尋找一樣東西：活人。

Medical authorities in Cumberland have concluded that in all cases, the killers are eating the flesh of the people they murder.

坎伯蘭的醫療當局已斷定，所有案件中，凶手都在吃被殺害者的肉。

Romero's zombies devour living human beings.

Romero 的殭屍會吞噬活生生的人類。

They hobble forward awkwardly but relentlessly.

牠們笨拙地向前挪動，但毫不懈怠。

They're dumb, able to use objects as blunt force instruments, but nothing else.

牠們很笨，能把物體當作鈍器使用，但僅此而已。

They can only be killed by being shot in the head or burned.

牠們只能透過被射中頭部或燒毀才能被殺死。

And if one bites or scratches you, you'll die not long after, then transform into one and pursue whoever is nearby, family or not.

如果這些生物咬你或抓傷你，不久後你就會死亡，然後變成其中一員，追逐身邊的任何人，無論是家人還是朋友。

If these creatures don't resemble the zombies of Haitian Voodoo, that's because Romero didn't think of his undead as zombies.

如果這些生物不像海地的 voodoo 殭屍，那是因為 Romero 並不認為牠們是不死生物。

在夜晚，牠們被稱為食屍鬼，而

they're derived more from Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend than William Seabrook.

牠們的靈感更多來自 Richard Matheson 的小說《我是傳奇》，而非 William Seabrook。

How these flesh eaters came to be known as zombies is a bit foggy.

這些食人生物是如何被稱為殭屍的，有點模糊不清。

But by the time Romero made the sequel dawn of the Dead, he adopted the name too.

但到了 Romero 拍攝續集《活死人之日》時，他也採用了這個名字。

Whether there are enough similarities to consider the pre Romero and post Romero history of zombies continuous is up for debate.

Romero 前後期的殭屍歷史是否足夠相似，可以被視為連續的，這還有待討論。

What is clear is that when pretty much anyone thinks of zombies nowadays, they're thinking of Romero zombies.

可以確定的是，現今幾乎任何人想到殭屍時，都會想到 Romero 的殭屍。

One reason for this is that these are just creative, primal monsters.

其中一個原因是，這些怪物極具創意且原始。

But another reason, I think, why Romero's zombies have been so lasting is because his original trilogy, particularly the first two installments, are really outstanding movies.

但我想，Romero 的殭屍之所以能如此持久，另一個原因是他最初的三部曲，尤其是前兩部，都是非常出色的電影。

Night of the Dead, in its neorealist black and white style, is a smart, tightly crafted story made on a shoestring budget with a third act that is absolutely brutal and punishing.

《活死人之夜》以其新寫實主義的黑白風格，講述了一個聰明、製作精良的故事，儘管預算有限，但第三幕卻極其殘酷和懲罰性。

Even now, 50 years later, in dawn of the Dead, his best film, I think Romero keys into the symbolic potential of his monsters in a way that he was only hinting at in Night.

即使到了 50 年後的今天，《活死人之日》這部他最好的電影，我認為 Romero 觸及了他怪物象徵性的潛力，這是他在《活死人之夜》中才剛剛暗示過的。

The film, which takes place almost entirely in a mall, uses zombies to critique consumerism.

這部幾乎完全發生在購物中心的電影，利用殭屍來批判消費主義。

As the zombies lumber through this familiar place, we see our own behavior as a grotesque reflection.

當殭屍們在這熟悉的地方蹣跚而行時，我們看到了自己行為的怪誕映照。

A zombie's thoughtlessness, Romero understood, is the perfect mirror for our own.

Romero 明白，殭屍的毫無思慮，正是我們自身最佳的鏡子。

You've seen the shows, played the games, watched the trailers.

你看過影集、玩過遊戲、看過預告片。

It's more than firmly established as a horror trope, which means that it'll likely stay with us for a very long time.

它早已牢牢確立為恐怖的經典橋段，這意味著它很可能會伴隨我們很長一段時間。

Its history is complicated, a tangle of appropriation and invention, prejudice and creative genius and awesomeness.

它的歷史很複雜，是挪用與原創、偏見與創意天才以及超讚的糾葛。

換句話說，這是一個現代神話。

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本集節目由 Squarespace 贊助播出。

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如果你不知道的話，你可以用 Squarespace 來製作各種你需要的精美網站。

A personal site, a wedding website, a site for your business or portfolio, a blog.

個人網站、婚禮網站、商業或作品集網站、部落格。

And in just a few clicks, you can have that website up and running.

而且只要點幾下，你就可以讓網站上線運作。

Their design team has crafted templates that work on computer browsers and on mobile, so they switch perfectly between the two.

他們的設計團隊打造了能在電腦瀏覽器和手機上運作的範本，所以兩者之間的切換都非常完美。

You can integrate your own photos and videos, and

你可以整合你自己的照片和影片，然後

you can even link your social accounts so that you can auto post to Twitter and Facebook, all from within Squarespace.

你甚至可以連結你的社群帳號，這樣你就可以直接在 Squarespace 裡自動發布到 Twitter 和 Facebook。

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到 squarespace.com 申請免費試用，然後

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當你準備好要上線時，到 squarespace.com nerdwriter 購買，可以享有第一次購買 9 折優惠。