Clairvius Narcisse

Também chamado: the Living Zombie

Folclore e mitosMorto-vivoDe 1968 a 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

⚔️ Combatê-lo

Primeiro registo

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Origem

Haitian

Haiti

O que o causa

Outro

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

Como te tornas um

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

Quando apareceu pela primeira vez?

Mundo antigo

Idade Média

De 1500 a 1899

De 1900 a 1967

De 1968 a 1999

De 2000 a 2009

De 2010 até hoje

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

notas de campo

O que dizem as fontes

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

Fontes

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Folclore das mesmas terras

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)Haitian, 1997