Clairvius Narcisse

Auch bekannt als: the Living Zombie

Folklore und MythenUntot1968 bis 1999

Clairvius Narcisse is the most famous real person claimed to have been a zombi. A Haitian man documented as dead in 1962 turned up alive eighteen years later saying he had been drugged, buried, exhumed and enslaved. The ethnobotanist Wade Davis built a pharmacological theory of zombification around the case, which toxicologists have largely rejected. Whatever happened to him, his story shaped how the outside world has imagined the Haitian zombi ever since.1 2

Gegen ihn kämpfen

Erstmals belegt

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Herkunft

Haitian

Haiti

Was es auslöst

Sonstige

By his own account a bokor took his soul; Wade Davis proposed poisoning with a tetrodotoxin powder followed by doses of datura.

Wie man einer wird

He said he was conscious but paralysed through his burial, then dug up and put to forced labour.

Wann tauchte er zuerst auf?

Antike Mittelalter 1500 bis 1899 1900 bis 1967 1968 bis 1999 2000 bis 2009 2010 bis heute

1980

Reappeared in 1980, claiming to have been buried in 1962

Feldnotizen

Was die Quellen sagen

Born 1922 in L'Estère; pronounced dead at the Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles in May 1962 and buried1 2

In 1980 he approached his sister and identified himself by a childhood nickname1 2

He said he had worked on a sugar plantation for two years until the bokor died1 2

A brother with whom he had quarrelled over land was suspected of ordering it1 2

Toxicologists Kao and Yasumoto called the tetrodotoxin claim 'without factual foundation'1 2

His story was the basis of The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)1 2

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