Clairvius Narcisse

Kallas även: the Living Zombie

Folktro och myterOdöd1968 till 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

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Först belagd

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Ursprung

Haitian

Haiti

Vad som orsakar det

Övrigt

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

Hur man blir en

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

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Medeltiden

1500 till 1899

1900 till 1967

1968 till 1999

2000 till 2009

2010 till idag

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

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Vad källorna säger

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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