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The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

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In 1997 a British anthropologist-psychiatrist and a Haitian physician published the only clinical study of people identified in Haiti as zombis. They examined three individuals whose families said they had died and been buried years earlier. All three had psychiatric or neurological conditions, and genetic testing showed that at least two were strangers taken in by bereaved families. The paper remains the main medical evidence that the living zombi is a social diagnosis applied to vulnerable, wandering people.12

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1997
Published by Roland Littlewood and Chavannes Douyon in The Lancet, 1997
Ursprung
Haitian
Haiti
Vad som orsakar det
Övrigt
Families attributed each case to sorcery; the investigators diagnosed mental illness, brain damage and learning disability, with mistaken identity in two cases.
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Each had died young after a short illness, been buried, and was 'recognised' by relatives years later.
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One was noticed walking through a market in a detached, shambling manner.

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1997

Published by Roland Littlewood and Chavannes Douyon in The Lancet, 1997

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1

FI, a woman buried beside her house, was identified three years later wandering near her village12

2

WD, dead at 18, was identified by his family at a cockfight eight years after his burial12

3

MM was seen in a town market thirteen years after her death at 1812

4

Examination with EEG and CT scans found catatonic schizophrenia, epilepsy with brain damage, and a developmental learning disability12

5

DNA and fingerprint tests showed that two of the three were not the dead relatives at all12

6

The authors did find tetrodotoxin in samples of bokors' powder, but thought misidentification the likelier general explanation12

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  1. A medical study of the Haitian zombie - Mind Hacks
  2. Zombie - Wikipedia

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