The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Gape e bidiwa: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE a kgokgoetsa1968 go ya go 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 kwadilwe la ntlha

1997

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

Tshimologo

Haitian

Haiti

Se se e bakang

Tse dingwe

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

O fetoga yone jang

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

E tsamaya jang

E a kgokgoetsa

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

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

1997

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

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi 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

A o ka e siela kgakala?

Setlhopha sa bonako go ya ka fa metswedi e e tlhalosang ka teng (e a kgokgoetsa), e seng tekanyo.

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

Wena, o tsamaya mo e ka nnang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

Wena, o taboga ka iketlo mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)

Motho yo mogolo yo o itekanetseng a siana thata mo e ka nnang 24 km/h (15 mph)

Mopalami wa baesekele yo o bonako mo e ka nnang 37 km/h (23 mph)

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

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937