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Felicia Felix-Mentor

Felicia Felix-Mentor is the subject of one of the first investigated reports of a living zombi. The writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston met a woman in Haiti in 1937 who was said to have been dead for three decades. Medical examination indicated she was not the dead woman, and the case is now usually read as mistaken identity involving a vulnerable stranger. It marks the point where the zombi moved from travellers' tales into ethnography and medicine.12

Vecht ertegen
Eerst vastgelegd
1937
Encountered and reported by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937
Herkomst
Haitian
Haïti
Wat het veroorzaakt
Nooit verklaard
Her family believed she had been raised from the grave; no mechanism was established.

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Encountered and reported by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937

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Wat de bronnen zeggen

1

The family said their relative had died and been buried in 1907, aged 2912

2

The woman appeared in a village thirty years later and was claimed as the dead Felicia12

3

A doctor's X-rays showed she lacked the leg fracture Felix-Mentor was known to have had12

4

Hurston looked for the drug rumoured to be used on such victims but found few people willing to talk12

5

The psychiatrist Roland Littlewood later argued that such cases are mentally ill or homeless strangers adopted by bereaved families12

Bronnen

  1. Felicia Felix-Mentor - Wikipedia
  2. Zombie - Wikipedia

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