The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Aussi appelé: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Folklore et mythesMort-vivantTraîne la patte1968 à 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

⚔️ L'affronter

Première mention

1997

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

Origine

Haitian

Haïti

Ce qui le provoque

Autre

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

Comment on en devient un

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

Comment il se déplace

Traîne la patte

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

Quand est-il apparu pour la première fois ?

Monde antique

Moyen Âge

1500 à 1899

1900 à 1967

1968 à 1999

2000 à 2009

2010 à aujourd'hui

1997

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

notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

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

Pourriez-vous le distancer ?

Classe de vitesse d'après la description des sources (traîne la patte), pas une mesure.

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

Vous, en marchant environ 5 km/h

Vous, en jogging environ 10 km/h

Un adulte en forme qui sprinte environ 24 km/h

Un cycliste rapide environ 37 km/h

Sources

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Du folklore des mêmes contrées

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937