When and where were zombies made up?

the very first stories of zombies come from China. it was said that if someone died and was buried on a land far from his ancestral home, his sul would never find peace. so Taoist priests were said to raise these corpses in forms of zombies and have them walk to their ancestral homes where they could be buried. so the Chinese believe that if at night you hear the sounds of hopping outside, do not go out, because it is the corpses of the far dead, hoping home to their graves, guided by a Taoist priest, who was supposed to control them using beads and charms. if a hopper zombie was left in the state of the undead for too long, it would transform into a sort of demonic and dangerous being, being bereft of soul and still animated, and would attack creatures at night and suck their blood to survive. apparently if you had a rooster, you were safe from blood sucking zombies. the hopping zombies were harmless, but you were supposed to stay out of their way.

Ancient people not understanding death... like how it will sound like a dead person is breathing or moaning when gas begins to escape the body through the mouth, or like when rigor mortis causes a corpse to seem to move.

I just saw part of a documentary about this. LOTS of ancient cultures had concepts of violent "dead" people.

The word 'zombie' comes from Voodoo, a religion with roots in western Africa, and Christianity, that developed in Haiti.