The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)

Ibuye libizwe: Littlewood and Douyon cases

Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafiUkubhakuzela1968 kuya ku-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

⚔️ Lwa nayo

Kuqoshwe kuqala

1997

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

Imvelaphi

Haitian

I-Haiti

Okuyibangela

Okunye

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

Indlela oba ngayo yinye

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

Indlela inyakaza ngayo

Ukubhakuzela

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

Yaqala nini ukuvela?

Izwe lasendulo

Ezikhathini Eziphakathi

1500 kuya ku-1899

1900 kuya ku-1967

1968 kuya ku-1999

2000 kuya ku-2009

2010 kuya namuhla

1997

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

amanothi ensimini

Okushiwo yimithombo

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

Ubungayidlula ngokugijima?

Isigaba sejubane esisuka ekuchazweni yimithombo (ukubhakuzela), hhayi isilinganiso.

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

Wena, uhamba cishe 5 km/h

Wena, ugijima kancane cishe 10 km/h

Umuntu omdala olungile egijima ngamandla cishe 24 km/h

Umgibeli webhayisikili osheshayo cishe 37 km/h

Imithombo

Wonke amaqiniso kuleli khasi avela kule mithombo, abhalwe ngamazwi ethu. Ubone iphutha? Sitshele ku-hello@zombiewiki.app.

Amasiko avela emazweni afanayo

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980

Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937