The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Akpọkwa ya: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Akụkọ ifo na akụkọ ọdịnalaNwụrụ anwụỊma jijiji1968 ruo 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

⚔️ Mee ha lụọ ọgụ

Mgbe e dere ya nke mbụ

1997

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

Mmalite

Haitian

Haiti

Ihe na-akpata ya

Ndị ọzọ

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

Otu i si abụrụ otu

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

Otu o si agagharị

Ịma jijiji

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

Kedu mgbe ọ pụtara nke mbụ?

Ụwa oge ochie

Oge etiti

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1900 ruo 1967

1968 ruo 1999

2000 ruo 2009

2010 ruo taa

1997

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

ndetu ubi

Ihe isi mmalite na-ekwu

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

Ị ga-agba ya ọsọ?

Klas ọsọ site n'otu isi mmalite si kọwaa (ịma jijiji), ọ bụghị nha.

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM) ihe dị ka 3 km/h

Gị, na-eje ije ihe dị ka 5 km/h

Gị, na-agba ọsọ ntakịrị ihe dị ka 10 km/h

Okenye siri ike na-agba ọsọ ihe dị ka 24 km/h

Onye na-agba ịnyịnya ígwè ọsọ ihe dị ka 37 km/h

Isi mmalite

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Akụkọ ifo site n'otu ala

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937