• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    The zombie becomes part of the vampires ghoul horde. To become a vampire one must first have a soul to transact with the devil of which zombies do not have, similarly to become a zombie one must be alive for the zombie virus to spread of which vampires are not. The vampire has demonic magical influence and the zombie does not so it becomes part of Its ghoul horde.

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      3 months ago

      Depends on the canon, really. If you wanna go with the authentic Hungarian roots, the requirements to be a vampire are fairly tight. Likewise, Haitian Voodoo has some pretty tight requirements on what a zombie actually is.

      Once you cross the pop culture wall, no holds barred. It depends entirely on the author.

    • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      AFAIK, vampires aren’t demonic in origin, or abyssal/infernal in any way, really. They don’t employ contracts of any sort, and don’t traffic in souls, nor any other resemblance to demons or devils, at all. 🙂‍↔️