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Zombi (Haitian)

También llamado: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre
Folclore y mitosNo muertoSe arrastraBrujeríaDe 1500 a 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.12

⚔️ Combatirlo
Primer registro
1750
The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery
Origen
Haitian (Vodou folklore)
Haití
Qué lo causa
Brujería
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.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
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.
Cómo se mueve
Se arrastra
Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.
Inteligencia
Sin cerebro
Puntos débiles
  • 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

¿Cuándo apareció por primera vez?

Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
1750

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

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

1

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others12

2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'12

3

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle12

4

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements12

5

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves12

6

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)12

¿Podrías huir de él?

Clase de velocidad según cómo la describen las fuentes (se arrastra), no una medición.

Zombi (Haitian) unos 3 km/h
Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h

Fuentes

  1. Zombie - Wikipedia
  2. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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Folclore de las mismas tierras

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)Haitian, 1997

Misma época: De 1500 a 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880