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YAHOO (The works of Jonathan Swift)
See also HOUYHNHNMS
The Yahoos are a degenerate species of human, with all our vices and none of our questionable virtues. The Yahoos live in
the land of the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses.
The nails of the Yahoo have grown into claws and the upper parts of their bodies are covered with an unhealthy looking coat
of hair.
Yahoos can look human when you clean them up a little, but they are incapable of reason, and can be counted on to do the
stupidest and most disgusting thing imaginable in any given circumstance. They scratch, bite, and shriek at one another
constantly, and throw their own excrement at their enemies when threatened.

YETI (Tibetan)
The yeti is the “Abominable Snowman” of the Himalayan Mountains. It is a manlike beast related to the American Sasquatch
or Bigfoot. It has never been photographed and is rarely seen, although many mysterious footprints have been discovered in
the snow. The yeti stays up in the mountains to avoid the Yahoos.

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ZOMBI (Haitian)
In legend, the zombi is one of the living dead, raised by foul magic to do the bidding of a sorcerer.
There is the ghoulish, flesh eating zombie of the Hollywood movie, but there is another, deeper horror, ignored by all except
the Bela Lugosi classic White Zombie.




	Haiti is a place haunted by slavery, and for the zombi there is no escape, even in death. Scientists such as Wade Davis have explored the reality behind the zombi. In some parts of Haiti, certain people are given a drug that puts them into a deathlike trance. They are buried, dug up, and given a second poison that stuns them into catatonia, a living death. This is mentioned by Zora Neale Hurston in Tell My Horse and confirmed with botanical detail by Davis in The Serpent and the Rainbow.


		Text and art copyright 1990, 2005 by Michael Fountain unless stated otherwise