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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.”