The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Pia huitwa: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Ngano na hadithi za kaleWafuAnayumbayumba1968 hadi 1999

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.1 2

⚔️ Pambana nao

Ilirekodiwa kwanza

1997

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

Asili

Haitian

Haiti

Nini husababisha

Nyingine

Families attributed each case to sorcery; the investigators diagnosed mental illness, brain damage and learning disability, with mistaken identity in two cases.

Jinsi unavyokuwa mmoja

Each had died young after a short illness, been buried, and was 'recognised' by relatives years later.

Jinsi anavyosogea

Anayumbayumba

One was noticed walking through a market in a detached, shambling manner.

Ilionekana lini kwanza?

Dunia ya kale

Zama za Kati

1500 hadi 1899

1900 hadi 1967

1968 hadi 1999

2000 hadi 2009

2010 hadi leo

1997

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

maelezo ya uwandani

Vyanzo vinasema nini

FI, a woman buried beside her house, was identified three years later wandering near her village1 2

WD, dead at 18, was identified by his family at a cockfight eight years after his burial1 2

MM was seen in a town market thirteen years after her death at 181 2

Examination with EEG and CT scans found catatonic schizophrenia, epilepsy with brain damage, and a developmental learning disability1 2

DNA and fingerprint tests showed that two of the three were not the dead relatives at all1 2

The authors did find tetrodotoxin in samples of bokors' powder, but thought misidentification the likelier general explanation1 2

Je, ungeweza kumkimbia?

Daraja la kasi kulingana na jinsi vyanzo vinavyomweleza (anayumbayumba), si kipimo.

The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM) takriban 3 km/h

Wewe, ukitembea takriban 5 km/h

Wewe, ukikimbia mchakamchaka takriban 10 km/h

Mtu mzima mwenye afya akikimbia kwa kasi takriban 24 km/h

Mwendesha baiskeli mwepesi takriban 37 km/h

Vyanzo

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Ngano kutoka nchi hizo hizo

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937