Clairvius Narcisse

Imadziwikanso kuti: the Living Zombie

Nthano ndi zikhulupiriroWakufa wamoyo1968 mpaka 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

Amenyane!

Inalembedwa koyamba

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Kochokera

Haitian

Haiti

Chimayambitsa

Zina

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

Momwe umasandukira zombie

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

Inaoneka liti koyamba?

Dziko lakale Nyengo Zapakati 1500 mpaka 1899 1900 mpaka 1967 1968 mpaka 1999 2000 mpaka 2009 2010 mpaka lero

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

zolemba za kumunda

Zimene magwero akunena

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

Magwero

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Nthano zochokera ku mayiko omwewo

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937

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