The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

A tún ń pè é ní: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu àti àròsọÒkúÓ ń ṣubú lọ1968 sí 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

⚔️ Bá a jà

Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tí a kọ sílẹ̀

1997

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

Orírun

Haitian

Haiti

Ohun tó fà á

Òmíràn

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

Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan

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

Bí ó ṣe ń rìn

Ó ń ṣubú lọ

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

Ìgbà wo ló kọ́kọ́ farahàn?

Ayé àtijọ́

Sáà Àárín

1500 sí 1899

1900 sí 1967

1968 sí 1999

2000 sí 2009

2010 títí di òní

1997

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

àkọsílẹ̀ pápá

Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

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

Ṣé o lè sá fún un?

Ẹ̀ka ìyára láti bí àwọn orísun ṣe ṣàpèjúwe rẹ̀ (ó ń ṣubú lọ), kì í ṣe ìwọ̀n.

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

Ìwọ, ní rírìn nǹkan bí 5 km/h

Ìwọ, ní eré òwúrọ̀ nǹkan bí 10 km/h

Àgbàlagbà alágbára tó ń sáré nǹkan bí 24 km/h

Ẹni tó ń gun kẹ̀kẹ́ lákọ̀ọ́kọ̀ nǹkan bí 37 km/h

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Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu láti àwọn ilẹ̀ kan náà

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937