• Animators Inc. in St. Louis,
• Élan Vital of New Orleans, and
• The Resurrection Company in California.

Animation

Appearance:

• They usually obey whomever raised them from their grave
• They crave flesh - without it, they rapidly decay. If fed on flesh, zombies can last a lot longer than usual. One flesh-eating zombie is over three years old. (ref??)
• In rare cases, zombies have been known to go crazy and start attacking people. There have been three documented cases of these flesh-eating zombies, all being solitary hunters.
• Most have enough mind left to answer questions, if they are not complicated.
• They have little mind or thoughts, just memories of what they were. If well treated they can retain their personalities for a week. Ill treatment and shock will destroy the memories and personality.

• The older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise them. After a few centuries, the only sacrifice big enough to raise them is a human.
• When risen, they take a moment to orient themselves.
• They cannot regain their memories without fresh blood or flesh. Dead meat will not suffice.
• Murdered zombies try to kill their murderer on sight.
• There was a movement to use zombies in pesticide-contaminated fields, but they degrade too quickly to be used (tLaC)
• The dead have no rights under law in America (tLaC)
• You cannot use more than one sacrifice to attain enough power to raise the dead.Lots of little sacrifices do not add up to a bigger one.
  
• Freshly dead zombies can bleed a little, like a corpse, but after more than a week or so and they don't.
• Testimony given by zombies does not hold up in a court of law, as the witness - the zombie - has to be led by questioning.
• It is almost impossible to 'kill' a zombie. Bullets won't stop it, and neither does hacking one to pieces - the parts still move. (tLaC)

• They usually have no soul, though a skilled Vaudun Priest can capture a soul at the time of death and bind it to the raised body. Zombies formed in this manner do not rot. (tLaC)
• Generally, Zombies cannot be raised until their souls move on. This usually takes three days.
• A Vaudun myth about zombies is the human had to be a killer in life to be used as a murder weapon as a zombie.This is not true.
  
• Short of a cremation, an animator can reanimate any corpse.
• Zombies respect and fear fire, as it is one of the only ways to fully destroy a zombie. Flamethrowers and napalm are used to when one gets out of control.
• Zombies are usually forgiving of the living, unless they see their murderer or until they get hungry - when they might start eating people.
• If an animator loses control of a zombie, it would either wander away or attack people close to it.

Zombie Rights

• There has been talk about a Bill to protect Zombies from being used for manual labour - slavery. Anita and Charles Montgomery have been asked to testify. In tLaC Charles is seen visiting restaurant owner who want to use Zombie as labor.
  
• A ruling a month prior to CotD says that the newly dead - less than a week - could be raised and verbally ordered to write a will. Only the rising animator or a neutral third party can control the zombie.
• A legislation was in the works during tLaC to ban the use of zombies as slaves.