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Zombi (Haitian)

Также известен как: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre

Фольклор и мифыНежитьШаркаетКолдовство1500–1899

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.1 2

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Первое упоминание

1750

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

Происхождение

Haitian (Vodou folklore)

Гаити

Что его вызывает

Колдовство

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.

Как им становятся

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.

Как он двигается

Шаркает

Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.

Интеллект

Безмозглый

Слабые места

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

Когда он впервые появился?

Древний мир

Средневековье

1500–1899

1900–1967

1968–1999

2000–2009

2010 – наше время

1750

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

полевые заметки

Что говорят источники

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others1 2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'1 2

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle1 2

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements1 2

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves1 2

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)1 2

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Класс скорости определён по описаниям в источниках (шаркает), а не по измерениям.

Zombi (Haitian) около 3 km/h

Вы, идущий шагом около 5 km/h

Вы, бегущий трусцой около 10 km/h

Подготовленный взрослый в спринте около 24 km/h

Быстрый велосипедист около 37 km/h

Источники

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Фольклор из тех же земель

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937

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

Та же эпоха: 1500–1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789

StrigoiRomanian, 1714

Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725

AbhartachIrish, 1870

Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732

ChurelSouth Asian, 1880