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Zombi (Haitian)

Wɔfrɛ no bio: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐtwetwe ne nanAbayisɛm1500 kɔsi 1899

The zombi of Haitian folklore is a dead or seemingly dead person taken from the grave by a sorcerer and kept as a slave without will. The word comes from Central African languages, and the belief was shaped by the plantation slavery of colonial Haiti, where death was supposed to be the one escape from forced labour. Researchers have proposed drugs, mental illness and mistaken identity to explain reported cases, and none of these accounts is settled. This figure, a body that works and obeys but is no longer a person, is the origin of the word and the concept behind every later zombie.12

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1750
The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery
Mfiase
Haitian (Vodou folklore)
Haiti
Deɛ ɛde ba
Abayisɛm
A sorcerer (bokor) either raises a buried body by necromancy or captures the part of the soul that carries will and memory, leaving a controllable shell.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A bokor makes the victim appear to die, takes the body from the grave at night and holds its ti bon anj, the seat of will and personality.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛtwetwe ne nan
Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.
Nyansa
Adwene nni mu
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • salt or salt water, which is said to wake it or release it
  • preventive burial: laying the corpse face down, filling the mouth with earth or sewing the lips shut
  • sesame seeds scattered on the grave to keep the spirit counting

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others12

2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'12

3

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle12

4

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements12

5

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves12

6

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)12

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛtwetwe ne nan), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Zombi (Haitian) bɛyɛ 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Wo, nantew bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wo, mmirika brɛoo bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ɔpanin a ne ho yɛ den a ɔtu mmirika denden bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Sakrekafoɔ a ɔyɛ ntɛm bɛyɛ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fibea

  1. Zombie - Wikipedia
  2. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)Haitian, 1997

Berɛ koro: 1500 kɔsi 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
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