Clairvius Narcisse

Ook wel genoemd: the Living Zombie

Folklore en mythenOndood1968 tot 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

⚔️ Vecht ertegen

Eerst vastgelegd

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Herkomst

Haitian

Haïti

Wat het veroorzaakt

Overig

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

Hoe je er een wordt

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

Wanneer verscheen hij voor het eerst?

Oudheid

Middeleeuwen

1500 tot 1899

1900 tot 1967

1968 tot 1999

2000 tot 2009

2010 tot nu

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

veldnotities

Wat de bronnen zeggen

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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Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937

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