Here is another weird tale from Bromhall's Treatise of Specters, this time from the 16th century German writer Philip Melanchthon. This one describes a zombie - a corpse animated by magic! She doesn't seem to be a cannibal zombie though, since she doesn't eat any meat...
296. Philip
Melanchthon reports, that he was told by Christopher Gross and Sigismund
Galenius, that a certain Virgin of Bononia, that was conversant amongst men two
years after her death, and who was at a Banquet whereunto she was invited, not
tasting any meat, and sitting amongst other Virgins, by chance a Magitian
present knowing the fraud of the Devil, saith to them that were present; This
pale Maid hath been dead, and coming straight to her, taketh from under her
right shoulder, an inchantment, whereupon she appeared an ugly dead corps. This
inchantment had been performed by another Magitian, and thereby the Devil had
carried about this corps all this while.
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