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Zombi (Haitian)

Detto anche: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre
Folklore e mitiNon mortoArrancaStregoneriaDal 1500 al 1899

The zombi of Haitian folklore is a dead or seemingly dead person taken from the grave by a sorcerer and kept as a slave without will. The word comes from Central African languages, and the belief was shaped by the plantation slavery of colonial Haiti, where death was supposed to be the one escape from forced labour. Researchers have proposed drugs, mental illness and mistaken identity to explain reported cases, and none of these accounts is settled. This figure, a body that works and obeys but is no longer a person, is the origin of the word and the concept behind every later zombie.12

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Prima attestazione
1750
The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery
Origine
Haitian (Vodou folklore)
Haiti
Cosa lo causa
Stregoneria
A sorcerer (bokor) either raises a buried body by necromancy or captures the part of the soul that carries will and memory, leaving a controllable shell.
Come lo si diventa
A bokor makes the victim appear to die, takes the body from the grave at night and holds its ti bon anj, the seat of will and personality.
Come si muove
Arranca
Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.
Intelligenza
Senza cervello
Punti deboli
  • salt or salt water, which is said to wake it or release it
  • preventive burial: laying the corpse face down, filling the mouth with earth or sewing the lips shut
  • sesame seeds scattered on the grave to keep the spirit counting

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
1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

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Cosa dicono le fonti

1

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others12

2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'12

3

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle12

4

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements12

5

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves12

6

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)12

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Classe di velocità dalla descrizione delle fonti (arranca), non una misura.

Zombi (Haitian) circa 3 km/h
Tu, che cammini circa 5 km/h
Tu, che corri circa 10 km/h
Un adulto allenato in sprint circa 24 km/h
Un ciclista veloce circa 37 km/h

Fonti

  1. Zombie - Wikipedia
  2. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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Folklore delle stesse terre

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)Haitian, 1997

Stessa epoca: Dal 1500 al 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880