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Zombie

An undead human figure. Same category caveat as Demon. Attested by a fetched trade source which names zombies among western horror tattoo subject matter alongside demons and skulls. OPEN QUESTION: no fetched source states a symbolic meaning, so no can_symbolize edge. The Haitian-Vodou origins of the zombie figure are NOT addressed by any fetched source here and are deliberately not asserted - T11.7 already recorded Vodou as material requiring cultural handling, and this row inherits that caution rather than resolving it.
Thin
Low confidenceresearched

0 attested · 5 promoted1 source · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
figure
Variants
zombie figure; zombie head; decayed portrait
Common styles
realism; illustrative
Common themes
undead; horror; body horror
Cultural flags
the figure has Haitian-Vodou origins that no fetched source in this batch covers; flagged for T11.10 rather than described from recollection

Provenance

1 resolved

  • Black and Grey dark horror Tattoos (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattoo Life Crew, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine gallery feature. Verbatim: "Under the dark horror hat fall all those subjects that have their origin in the visual imagery related to devilish creatures"; "In western horror, they are demons, they are zombies, they are half-animal and half-human beings, skulls and other subjects often linked to the heavy metal genre". The only fetched source that names undead and demonic subject matter as tattoo categories.

    professional tattoo source · published 2024-07-05 · retrieved 2026-08-28

Related concepts

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Associated with · 3

  • → outgoingUndeadSubthemeThin
    strength 0.75promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_zombie ('undead'); themes_seed.common_motifs of theme_undead ('zombie'). Asserted independently from both ends of the relation; deduped to one edge. Confidence is the LOWER of the contributing rows, not the higher. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.75 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by TWO parent rows, one from each endpoint's own association column; the pack's scale reads 0.75 as 'frequent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingHorrorThemeAttested
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_zombie ('horror'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingBody HorrorSubthemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_zombie ('body horror'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Frequently used in · 2

  • → outgoingRealismStyleAttested
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_zombie ('realism'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingIllustrativeStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_zombie ('illustrative'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.