[Shimmer128]

I don't think this would scare Americans at all.

[Caipirabob]

Maybe I just lack imagination, but wouldn't your first question be "Why would the reanimated remains of a human elect to roam the afterlife on a Moped with training wheels?"

You're both correct, but in Brasil, they have Macumba and Camdomble as prominent religions. Similar and as intense as the Haitian or Cuban variety of Voodoo religions. It is deeply interwoven with Catholicism in many areas, particularly NorthEastern Brasil.

And by their standards, the walking dead isn't such a stretch.