31 Days of Monsters - Day 31: Jiangshi

Hopping vampires, or Jiangshi, are the reanimated dead of China, who kill mortals and consume their life force. There are many ways a corpse can become a Jiangshi, including black magic, an untimely burial, or having a pregnant black cat jump onto a dead body. There are also numerous ways to combat them. When confronted with rice, Jiangshi must count all the grains before moving on. Holding your breath when attacked can thwart a hopping vampire.
Happy Halloween!

31 Days of Monsters: Day Twenty-eight — A Zombie (Voodoo)

In Vodun (voodoo) it is believed that a person could be brought back from the dead to serve a Bokor. In reality, zombies were most likely people who had been heavily drugged as a form of punishment, and were held under the Bokor's power by repeated doses of the drug, strong cultural superstition and guilt over what had made them the target of zombification in the first place.