Mummies are supernatural creatures who are a type of reanimate. They are the bodies of deceased humans whose physical resurrection is brought about through mystical means. In the real world, mummification is a process made popular by the people of Ancient Egypt who removed the vital organs of the dead and then wrapped their bodies in linen and buried them within massive tombs or pyramids. Naturally, these mummies tend to stay put, as they are most decidedly deceased. In fiction however, all bets are off. All it takes is one cryptically-worded curse and some Tana leaves to bring a mummy back to life as a silent killing machine. These so-called "living" mummies tend to be the servants of a living agent, who uses the mummy as the instrument of revenge against whosoever disrupts their tomb, so forth and so on.
On an episode of Tales from the Crypt, A 2,000-year-old mummy was discovered and brought to a carnival sideshow where it mated with a deformed freak named Enoch the Two-Faced man. The offspring of their coupling was a grotesque ghoulish creature which came to be known as the Crypt Keeper. [1]
Notes & Trivia
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Appearances
- Amazing Stories: Mummy, Daddy
- Being Human: It's a Shame About Ray
- Big Wolf on Campus: Stalk Like an Egyptian
- Bones: Mummy in the Maze
- Charmed: Y Tu Mummy Tambien
- Creepshow: Model Kid
- Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars (Part 1)
- Doctor Who: Mummy on the Orient Express
- Goosebumps: Don't Wake Mummy
- Hart to Hart: Murder Wrap
- Haunting Hour: Night of the Mummy
- Mummy: Old Friends
- Spider-Woman: Pyramids of Terror
- Tales from the Crypt: Lower Berth
See also
References
- ↑ Tales from the Crypt: Lower Berth