Clairvius Narcisse

Born 1922 in L'Estère; pronounced dead at the Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles in May 1962 and buried12

In 1980 he approached his sister and identified himself by a childhood nickname12

He said he had worked on a sugar plantation for two years until the bokor died12

A brother with whom he had quarrelled over land was suspected of ordering it12

Toxicologists Kao and Yasumoto called the tetrodotoxin claim 'without factual foundation'12

His story was the basis of The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)12