The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatDafay doxantu1968 ba 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

Xeexal ko

Jëkk a bindu

1997

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

Cosaan

Haitian

Ayiti

Lan moo ko waral

Yeneen

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

Naka ngay doone benn

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

Naka lay yëngoo

Dafay doxantu

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

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Àddina su yàgg Diggu jamono 1500 ba 1899 1900 ba 1967 1968 ba 1999 2000 ba 2009 2010 ba tey

1997

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

notu gëstu

Li sours yi wax

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

Ndax mën nga ko raw ci daw?

Gaawaay bi jóge ci ni sours yi ko melale (dafay doxantu), du natt.

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

Yow, ci dox lu tollu ci 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

Yow, ci daw ndànk lu tollu ci 10 km/h (6.2 mph)

Mag bu am doole buy daw lu gaaw lool lu tollu ci 24 km/h (15 mph)

Ku gaaw ci welo lu tollu ci 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sours yi

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Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937