zumbi

plural zumbis

1. alternativeAlternative form of jumbie (“a ghost or spirit”).
2. nonstandardrareNonstandard spelling of zombie.

   and thus there was no danger of the Zumbi, or ghost killing men by reapparition.

   1876, R.F. Burton, Two Trips to Gorilla Land, page 124

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   as a libation, it would appear, to the zumbi or n’zumbi of the other world, by and with whom they always deem themselves surrounded and connected.

   1882, Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens, From Benguella to the Territory of Yacca, page 26

   The patients duly offered a banquet to appease the zumbi, but in Modena’s view the only purpose of the ritual was to invoke the demon.

   2021, Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa, page 41

1. The famous leader of the Quilombo dos Palmares, located in Brazil, South America.