He studies Patrick Lay Fermor's "The Traveller's Tree", a book about the Haitian voodoo religion and the transformation of humans into zombies.

Natural science writings on zombification, works of fiction, and religious and philosophical treatises are mentioned in this connection.

When a shaman pronounces it and points a magic rod at a tribesman, the latter realizes that he has been cursed, falls ill, and dies in a few days.

However, such a command will not work on a European: "he will see a short naked man waving an animal bone and muttering some words.

Likewise, an Australian Aboriginal person who had gone to an Anatoly Kashpirovsky séance "would have seen a short, well-dressed man mumbling some words and staring intently into the hall.

[5][7] In the second part of the essay, beginning with the chapter "homo sovetskii", the author shows how the phenomenon of zombification spreads to the inhabitants of the USSR.

In this way, Pelevin emphasizes that the goal of the described procedures is not to raise a harmoniously developed person, but to create a flawed creature with a suppressed will.