The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Tunnetaan myös nimellä: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Kansanperinne ja myytitEpäkuollutLaahustaa1968–1999

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

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Ensimmäinen merkintä

1997

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

Alkuperä

Haitian

Haiti

Mikä sen aiheuttaa

Muu

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

Miten sellaiseksi päätyy

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

Miten se liikkuu

Laahustaa

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

Milloin se ilmestyi ensimmäisen kerran?

Antiikin maailma

Keskiaika

1500–1899

1900–1967

1968–1999

2000–2009

2010 tähän päivään

1997

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

muistiinpanoja

Mitä lähteet sanovat

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

Sinä kävelemässä noin 5 km/h

Sinä hölkkäämässä noin 10 km/h

Kuntoilija täyttä vauhtia noin 24 km/h

Nopea pyöräilijä noin 37 km/h

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Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937