Clairvius Narcisse

Babengaka mpe: the Living Zombie

Masapo mpe makambo ya bankokoMokufi oyo atambolaka1968 kino 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

Bundisa bango

Ekomamaki mbala ya liboso

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Esika awuti

Haitian

Ayiti

Nini ebimisaka yango

Mosusu

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

Ndenge okokoma zombi

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

Abimaki mbala ya liboso ntango nini?

Mokili ya kala Eleko ya katikati 1500 kino 1899 1900 kino 1967 1968 kino 1999 2000 kino 2009 2010 kino lelo

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

makomi ya mosala

Oyo maziba ya sango elobi

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

Maziba ya sango

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Masapo ya mikili moko

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)Haitian, 1997