mute-servant-no-independent-will

Gallu · salience 0.85

“Read against their myth, the Gallu behave less like individual monsters and more like an extension of underworld law given legs: their few attested actions are all executions of an order already handed down, with no sign of independent scheming, negotiation, or mercy.”

Golem

“In most tellings the Golem has no independent will or moral judgment of its own; it acts as a literal, obedient servant of its creator, carrying out instructions without nuance or the capacity for ethical reasoning.”

Zombi

“In Vodou cosmology a person is held to possess more than one soul-component, and the zombi condition is explained as the bokor's capture or destruction of the victim's ti bon ange, the "little good angel" that carries individual consciousness and will, leaving behind a body that can move, obey, and labor but cannot reason, remember its former life, or resist command.”