The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

E boetse e bitswa: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE a thekesela1968 ho isa 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

Di lwantshe

E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele

1997

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

Tshimoloho

Haitian

Haiti

Se e bakang

Tse ding

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

Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng

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

Kamoo e tsamayang kateng

E a thekesela

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

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

Lefatshe la boholoholo Mehla e Bohareng 1500 ho isa 1899 1900 ho isa 1967 1968 ho isa 1999 2000 ho isa 2009 2010 ho fihlela kajeno

1997

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

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

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

Na o ka e phonyoha ka ho matha?

Sehlopha sa lebelo ho ya ka kamoo mehlodi e e hlalosang kateng (e a thekesela), eseng tekanyo.

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM) hoo e ka bang 3 km/h (1.9 mph)

Wena, o tsamaya hoo e ka bang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

Wena, o matha butle hoo e ka bang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)

Motho e moholo ya matla a mathang ka lebelo le leholo hoo e ka bang 24 km/h (15 mph)

Mopalami wa baesekele ya lebelo hoo e ka bang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Mehlodi

Ntlha e nngwe le e nngwe leqepheng lena e tswa mehloding ena, e ngotswe ka mantswe a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelle ho [email protected].

Fepa letshwele. Ha ho dipapatso, ha ho disebedisi tsa ho latela, e lefellwa ke motho a le mong. Tjhelete ya teboho e e boloka inthaneteng.Fana ka tjhelete ya teboho

Ditshomo tsa dinaha tseo

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937