Zombi (Haitian)

Λέγεται και: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre

Λαογραφία και μύθοιΑπέθαντοςΣέρνεταιΜαγεία1500–1899

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

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Πρώτη καταγραφή

1750

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

Προέλευση

Haitian (Vodou folklore)

Αϊτή

Τι το προκαλεί

Μαγεία

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.

Πώς γίνεσαι ένα

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.

Πώς κινείται

Σέρνεται

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

Ευφυΐα

Χωρίς μυαλό

Αδύναμα σημεία

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

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Αρχαίος κόσμος

Μεσαίωνας

1500–1899

1900–1967

1968–1999

2000–2009

2010 μέχρι σήμερα

1750

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

σημειώσεις πεδίου

Τι λένε οι πηγές

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others1 2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'1 2

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle1 2

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements1 2

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves1 2

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)1 2

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Zombi (Haitian) περίπου 3 χλμ./ώρα

Εσύ, περπατώντας περίπου 5 χλμ./ώρα

Εσύ, στο τζόκινγκ περίπου 10 χλμ./ώρα

Ένας ενήλικας σε φόρμα που τρέχει σπριντ περίπου 24 χλμ./ώρα

Ένας γρήγορος ποδηλάτης περίπου 37 χλμ./ώρα

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