Damballah is worshipped by voodoo practitioners in the Southern Gothic horror stories "Black Canaan" and "Pigeons from Hell" by Robert E. Howard.
The story opens as two New Englanders, John Branner and his friend Griswell, are travelling in the South and spend the night in a deserted plantation manor.
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"Pigeons from Hell" is one of several regional horror stories by Howard set in the piney woods in or near the ArkLaTex region of the Deep South.
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More recently, it has been turned into a four-issue comic book mini-series and trade paperback.
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A zuvembie is a creature used by Robert E. Howard in his short story "Pigeons from Hell," published in Weird Tales in 1938.
When "Pigeons from Hell" was adapted into an episode of the television anthology series Thriller the "zuvembie" was adapted with it, played by Ottola Nesmith.