sentences:  The "Oxford English Dictionary" gives the word's origin as West African and compares it to the Kongo words (god) and (fetish).A Kimbundu-to-Portuguese dictionary from 1903 defines the related word "nzumbi" as soul, while a later Kimbundu–Portuguese dictionary defines it as being a "spirit that is supposed to wander the earth to torment the living".One of the first books to expose Western culture to the concept of the voodoo zombie was "The Magic Island" (1929) by W. B. Seabrook.