The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Yitwa kandi: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Imigani n'inkuru za keraAbapfuye bazimaIrakurura amaguru1968 kugeza 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

Bashyire ku murwano

Yanditswe bwa mbere

1997

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

Inkomoko

Haitian

Hayiti

Icyayiteye

Ibindi

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

Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi

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

Uko igenda

Irakurura amaguru

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

Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?

Isi ya kera Ibihe byo hagati 1500 kugeza 1899 1900 kugeza 1967 1968 kugeza 1999 2000 kugeza 2009 2010 kugeza ubu

1997

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

inyandiko zo ku kibuga

Ibyo amasoko avuga

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

Wayisiga wiruka?

Icyiciro cy'umuvuduko gishingiye ku buryo amasoko ayisobanura (irakurura amaguru), si igipimo.

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM) nka km/h 3

Wowe, ugenda n'amaguru nka km/h 5

Wowe, wiruka buhoro nka km/h 10

Umuntu mukuru ufite imbaraga wiruka cyane nka km/h 24

Umunyonzi wihuta nka km/h 37

Amasoko

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Gaburira igikundi. Nta matangazo, nta bikurikirana, byishyurwa n'umuntu umwe. Agashimwe gatuma bikomeza kuboneka kuri interineti.Tanga agashimwe

Imigani yo mu bihugu bimwe

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937