The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Maqaa biraa: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eLafa harkisaa deema1968 hanga 1999

In 1997 a British anthropologist-psychiatrist and a Haitian physician published the only clinical study of people identified in Haiti as zombis. They examined three individuals whose families said they had died and been buried years earlier. All three had psychiatric or neurological conditions, and genetic testing showed that at least two were strangers taken in by bereaved families. The paper remains the main medical evidence that the living zombi is a social diagnosis applied to vulnerable, wandering people.1 2

Lolsiisi

Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame

1997

Published by Roland Littlewood and Chavannes Douyon in The Lancet, 1997

Ka'umsa

Haitian

Haayitii

Maaltu isa fida

Kan biroo

Families attributed each case to sorcery; the investigators diagnosed mental illness, brain damage and learning disability, with mistaken identity in two cases.

Akkamitti isa taata

Each had died young after a short illness, been buried, and was 'recognised' by relatives years later.

Akkamitti sochoo'a

Lafa harkisaa deema

One was noticed walking through a market in a detached, shambling manner.

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

Addunyaa durii Jaarraa Gidduugaleessaa 1500 hanga 1899 1900 hanga 1967 1968 hanga 1999 2000 hanga 2009 2010 hanga har'aa

1997

Published by Roland Littlewood and Chavannes Douyon in The Lancet, 1997

yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

FI, a woman buried beside her house, was identified three years later wandering near her village1 2

WD, dead at 18, was identified by his family at a cockfight eight years after his burial1 2

MM was seen in a town market thirteen years after her death at 181 2

Examination with EEG and CT scans found catatonic schizophrenia, epilepsy with brain damage, and a developmental learning disability1 2

DNA and fingerprint tests showed that two of the three were not the dead relatives at all1 2

The authors did find tetrodotoxin in samples of bokors' powder, but thought misidentification the likelier general explanation1 2

Fiigdee isa jalaa ba'uu dandeessaa?

Sadarkaa saffisaa akkaataa maddoonni itti ibsan irraa (lafa harkisaa deema), safara miti.

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM) gara 3 km/h (1.9 mph)

Ati, deemaa gara 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

Ati, suuta fiigaa gara 10 km/h (6.2 mph)

Ga'eessa qaamaan jabaa kan ariitiin fiigu gara 24 km/h (15 mph)

Saayikilii oofaa ariifataa gara 37 km/h (23 mph)

Maddoota

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Tuuta nyaachisi. Beeksisa hin jiru, hordoftuun hin jiru, nama tokkoon kaffalama. Gumaachi toora irra akka turu godha.Gumaacha kenni

Seenaa aadaa biyyoota wal fakkaatan irraa

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937