The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Auch bekannt als: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Folklore und MythenUntotSchlurft1968 bis 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

⚔️ Gegen ihn kämpfen

Erstmals belegt

1997

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

Herkunft

Haitian

Haiti

Was es auslöst

Sonstige

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

Wie man einer wird

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

Wie er sich bewegt

Schlurft

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

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

Antike

Mittelalter

1500 bis 1899

1900 bis 1967

1968 bis 1999

2000 bis 2009

2010 bis heute

1997

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

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

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

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Tempoklasse nach der Beschreibung der Quellen (schlurft), keine Messung.

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM) etwa 3 km/h

Du, gehend etwa 5 km/h

Du, joggend etwa 10 km/h

Ein fitter Erwachsener im Sprint etwa 24 km/h

Ein schneller Radfahrer etwa 37 km/h

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Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937