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Felicia Felix-Mentor

Folklore e mitiNon mortoDal 1900 al 1967

Felicia Felix-Mentor is the subject of one of the first investigated reports of a living zombi. The writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston met a woman in Haiti in 1937 who was said to have been dead for three decades. Medical examination indicated she was not the dead woman, and the case is now usually read as mistaken identity involving a vulnerable stranger. It marks the point where the zombi moved from travellers' tales into ethnography and medicine.12

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Prima attestazione
1937
Encountered and reported by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937
Origine
Haitian
Haiti
Cosa lo causa
Mai spiegato
Her family believed she had been raised from the grave; no mechanism was established.

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Mondo antico
Medioevo
Dal 1500 al 1899
Dal 1900 al 1967
Dal 1968 al 1999
Dal 2000 al 2009
Dal 2010 a oggi
1937

Encountered and reported by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

1

The family said their relative had died and been buried in 1907, aged 2912

2

The woman appeared in a village thirty years later and was claimed as the dead Felicia12

3

A doctor's X-rays showed she lacked the leg fracture Felix-Mentor was known to have had12

4

Hurston looked for the drug rumoured to be used on such victims but found few people willing to talk12

5

The psychiatrist Roland Littlewood later argued that such cases are mentally ill or homeless strangers adopted by bereaved families12

Fonti

  1. Felicia Felix-Mentor - Wikipedia
  2. Zombie - Wikipedia

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Folklore delle stesse terre

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)Haitian, 1997

Stessa epoca: Dal 1900 al 1967

AmalanhigVisayan (Philippines), 1967Nyongo working deadCameroonian (Bakweri, Bakossi and neighbouring peoples), 1950