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Zombi (Haitian)

又称: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre

The zombi of Haitian folklore is a dead or seemingly dead person taken from the grave by a sorcerer and kept as a slave without will. The word comes from Central African languages, and the belief was shaped by the plantation slavery of colonial Haiti, where death was supposed to be the one escape from forced labour. Researchers have proposed drugs, mental illness and mistaken identity to explain reported cases, and none of these accounts is settled. This figure, a body that works and obeys but is no longer a person, is the origin of the word and the concept behind every later zombie.1 2

和它战斗

首次记载

1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

起源

Haitian (Vodou folklore)

海地

成因是什么

巫术

A sorcerer (bokor) either raises a buried body by necromancy or captures the part of the soul that carries will and memory, leaving a controllable shell.

你如何变成它

A bokor makes the victim appear to die, takes the body from the grave at night and holds its ti bon anj, the seat of will and personality.

它如何移动

蹒跚

Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.

智力

没脑子

弱点

salt or salt water, which is said to wake it or release it
preventive burial: laying the corpse face down, filling the mouth with earth or sewing the lips shut
sesame seeds scattered on the grave to keep the spirit counting