Clairvius Narcisse

Tamén chamado: the Living Zombie

Folclore e mitoMorto viventeDe 1968 a 1999

Clairvius Narcisse is the most famous real person claimed to have been a zombi. A Haitian man documented as dead in 1962 turned up alive eighteen years later saying he had been drugged, buried, exhumed and enslaved. The ethnobotanist Wade Davis built a pharmacological theory of zombification around the case, which toxicologists have largely rejected. Whatever happened to him, his story shaped how the outside world has imagined the Haitian zombi ever since.1 2

Á batalla!

Primeiro rexistro

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Orixe

Haitian

Haití

Que o causa

Outro

By his own account a bokor took his soul; Wade Davis proposed poisoning with a tetrodotoxin powder followed by doses of datura.

Como te convertes nun

He said he was conscious but paralysed through his burial, then dug up and put to forced labour.

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigo Idade Media De 1500 a 1899 De 1900 a 1967 De 1968 a 1999 De 2000 a 2009 De 2010 ata hoxe

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

Born 1922 in L'Estère; pronounced dead at the Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles in May 1962 and buried1 2

In 1980 he approached his sister and identified himself by a childhood nickname1 2

He said he had worked on a sugar plantation for two years until the bokor died1 2

A brother with whom he had quarrelled over land was suspected of ordering it1 2

Toxicologists Kao and Yasumoto called the tetrodotoxin claim 'without factual foundation'1 2

His story was the basis of The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)1 2

Fontes

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