Clairvius Narcisse

Gape e bidiwa: the Living Zombie

Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogileng1968 go ya go 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

Di lwantshe

E kwadilwe la ntlha

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Tshimologo

Haitian

Haiti

Se se e bakang

Tse dingwe

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

O fetoga yone jang

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

E tlhagile la ntlha leng?

Lefatshe la bogologolo Motlha wa Bogare 1500 go ya go 1899 1900 go ya go 1967 1968 go ya go 1999 2000 go ya go 2009 2010 go fitlha gompieno

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

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

Metswedi

Ntlha nngwe le nngwe mo tsebeng e e tswa mo metsweding e, e kwadilwe ka mafoko a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelele kwa [email protected].

Fepa letshwititi. Ga go na dipapatso, ga go na dilatedi, e duelelwa ke motho a le mongwe. Madi a tebogo a e boloka e le mo inthaneteng.Tlogela madi a tebogo

Dinaane tsa setso go tswa mo mafatsheng a le mangwe

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937

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