Clairvius Narcisse

Detto anche: the Living Zombie

Folklore e mitiNon mortoDal 1968 al 1999

Clairvius Narcisse is the most famous real person claimed to have been a zombi. A Haitian man documented as dead in 1962 turned up alive eighteen years later saying he had been drugged, buried, exhumed and enslaved. The ethnobotanist Wade Davis built a pharmacological theory of zombification around the case, which toxicologists have largely rejected. Whatever happened to him, his story shaped how the outside world has imagined the Haitian zombi ever since.1 2

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Prima attestazione

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Origine

Haitian

Haiti

Cosa lo causa

Altro

By his own account a bokor took his soul; Wade Davis proposed poisoning with a tetrodotoxin powder followed by doses of datura.

Come lo si diventa

He said he was conscious but paralysed through his burial, then dug up and put to forced labour.

Quando è comparso per la prima volta?

Mondo antico

Medioevo

Dal 1500 al 1899

Dal 1900 al 1967

Dal 1968 al 1999

Dal 2000 al 2009

Dal 2010 a oggi

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

Born 1922 in L'Estère; pronounced dead at the Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles in May 1962 and buried1 2

In 1980 he approached his sister and identified himself by a childhood nickname1 2

He said he had worked on a sugar plantation for two years until the bokor died1 2

A brother with whom he had quarrelled over land was suspected of ordering it1 2

Toxicologists Kao and Yasumoto called the tetrodotoxin claim 'without factual foundation'1 2

His story was the basis of The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)1 2

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