Clairvius Narcisse

Sidoo kale loo yaqaan: the Living Zombie

Khuraafaad iyo ugaarsiDhintay1968 ilaa 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

⚔️ Dagaal geli

Markii ugu horreysay ee la diiwaangeliyay

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Asal

Haitian

Haiti

Waxa sababa

Kale

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

Sida aad mid u noqotid

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

Goorma ayuu markii ugu horreysay soo baxay?

Adduunka hore

Qarniyadii dhexe

1500 ilaa 1899

1900 ilaa 1967

1968 ilaa 1999

2000 ilaa 2009

2010 ilaa maanta

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

qoraallada goobta

Waxa ilaha yidhaahdaan

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

Ilaha

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Khuraafaad ka yimid dhulalkaas

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937

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