10 Zombie Coloring Pages - Free!

When Halloween begins it is impossible not to think about the incredible and so popular zombies. They are a classic during these very interesting celebrations! But, besides being the living dead, what else do you know about zombies?

Zombies are dead people who can be resurrected or brought back to life, and it is said that their origins come from a Haitian voodoo cult, which is about a dead person who is brought back to life by a sorcerer who seeks to turn him into his slave.

Zombies are creatures without consciousness and without will, who only follow orders. In other representations of them, instead of being slaves, they simply act on impulse. They usually have great physical strength. How terrible!

If you want to learn more about zombies, come along with us at Coloring Together to paint the zombie coloring pages. With them you will learn a lot, thanks to the fun facts we place on top of the zombie coloring images. Ready to start?

1. It is said that zombies created or brought to life through voodoo or magic could not eat salt, because if they did, the curse on them would break and they would return to their grave.
2. February 4th is celebrated as Zombie Pride Day all over the world, as a tribute to the birth of George Romero, founder of the zombie film genre.
3. The word “zombie” comes from the African word “ndzumbi”, which means “body”. On the other hand “nzambi” means “the spirit of a dead person” in the Bantu language.
4. The first known zombie film comes from the Haitian zombie myth, “White Zombie”, produced in 1932.
5. In Haiti there is a law that makes it a crime to turn someone into a zombie. They really do take it seriously! It establishes that if someone drugs another person, buries them as if they were dead and then digs them up, it would still be considered murder.
6. The safest place to be in a zombie apocalypse would be Australia. That's right! LifeScience did a study on these safe zones during an apocalypse, and concluded that Australia was the best place, taking into account its geographic location, population and weaponry.
7. In Haiti, the word “zombie” refers to a dead person who has been reanimated through witchcraft. They are usually related to voodoo.
8. In computer science, a zombie is a computer that has been taken over by a virus, a Trojan or a hacker. Incredible!
9. The modern concept of the zombie began with the voodoo religion in the Yoruba tribe, in West Africa. They later traveled with slaves to the island of Haiti, in the 1700s.
10. People have tried to turn various historical figures into zombies. George Washington, for example; his body was frozen for days and the doctor in charge offered his relatives to “raise him” by pumping air into his lungs and doing a lamb blood transfusion.
11. The “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”, a United States agency, has a Preparedness guide for the zombie apocalypse. Incredible!
12. The 10 safest countries during a zombie apocalypse are: Australia, Canada, United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, Bolivia, Norway, Finland, Argentina and Sweden.
13. George A. Romero is considered the father of zombie cinema, since he is the one who has directed and written more zombie films than anyone else.
14. Zombies are so popular that the zombie culture industry is worth more than 5 billion dollars. Amazing!
15. There are zombie versions of classic characters and stories, such as Zombie Quixote, Pride and Prejudice, or Lazarillo de Tormes.
16. In 1937 the American Zora Neale Hurston learned in Haiti the story of Felicia Felix-Mentor, who passed away and was buried in 1907. But many locals claimed she was seen thirty years later, turned into a zombie.
17. In the film “Night of the Living Dead” the extras who played zombies ate animal entrails. How horrible! Apparently, to make it more real, they bought animal innards at the butcher shop so the actors would eat them and it would look much more realistic.
18. In Chinese culture, zombies are known as “Jiang Shi”. These are people who died violently or unnaturally, and whose soul has not found rest. They usually cannot stand the sun.