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Message:: [QUOTE="afantiques, post: 15409, member: 25"]Due to the efforts of a small group of Voodoo missionaries from late 19th C. Haiti who based themselves in the then British leased territory of Weihaiwei, (North East China) a small number of converts were made. Due to local objection to the use of zombies as farm labour, the group migrated across the Gulf of Korea to an area that is now in North Korea and settled there. They kept themselves to themselves for many years, quietly prospering and spreading but during the Korean war their Chinese roots led them to side with the north and China, and as part of the war effort, they mass produced such dolls for the North Korean armed forces to carry, reasoning that if they were named G I Joe (later, by a devious process, to become a popular toy doll) and pierced with pins and burnt at tactically appropriate moments, the US troops would be discomforted and possibly even destroyed. Since in most part the UN forces were not voodoo devotees, the tactic was ineffective, but some troops 'liberated' a few such dolls from captured Northern troops and brought them home as souvenirs. In effect, what you have there is a piece of rare Korean War militaria. Although the doll program was not a success, the the slowly perfected zombie raising program continues to this day to provide North Korea with the remarkable leadership it currently enjoys.[/QUOTE]