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Zombi (Haitian)

A tún ń pè é ní: zonbi, zombie, zombi corps cadavre
Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu àti àròsọÒkúÓ ń ṣubú lọOṣó1500 sí 1899

The zombi of Haitian folklore is a dead or seemingly dead person taken from the grave by a sorcerer and kept as a slave without will. The word comes from Central African languages, and the belief was shaped by the plantation slavery of colonial Haiti, where death was supposed to be the one escape from forced labour. Researchers have proposed drugs, mental illness and mistaken identity to explain reported cases, and none of these accounts is settled. This figure, a body that works and obeys but is no longer a person, is the origin of the word and the concept behind every later zombie.12

Bá a jà
Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tí a kọ sílẹ̀
1750
The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery
Orírun
Haitian (Vodou folklore)
Haiti
Ohun tó fà á
Oṣó
A sorcerer (bokor) either raises a buried body by necromancy or captures the part of the soul that carries will and memory, leaving a controllable shell.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
A bokor makes the victim appear to die, takes the body from the grave at night and holds its ti bon anj, the seat of will and personality.
Bí ó ṣe ń rìn
Ó ń ṣubú lọ
Described as walking in a shambling, detached way with the head lowered and a fixed stare.
Làákàyè
Aláìní làákàyè
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • salt or salt water, which is said to wake it or release it
  • preventive burial: laying the corpse face down, filling the mouth with earth or sewing the lips shut
  • sesame seeds scattered on the grave to keep the spirit counting

Ìgbà wo ló kọ́kọ́ farahàn?

Ayé àtijọ́Sáà Àárín1500 sí 18991900 sí 19671968 sí 19992000 sí 20092010 títí di òní1750

The word is first recorded in English in the 18th century; the belief took shape in colonial Saint-Domingue under slavery

àkọsílẹ̀ pápá

Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

1

It has no will, memory or emotion and exists to work: in fields, or hired out to others12

2

Vodou priests (houngan and mambo) are held to oppose the bokor, who 'serves with both hands'12

3

A second kind, the zombi astral, is a captured soul without a body, kept in a bottle12

4

Haitians recognise a zombi by its nasal voice, fixed stare, lowered head and repetitive, purposeless movements12

5

The tradition expresses a fear of becoming a zombi, a slave even after death, more than a fear of zombis themselves12

6

William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) carried the idea to American readers and influenced the film White Zombie (1932)12

Ṣé o lè sá fún un?

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

Zombi (Haitian) nǹkan bí 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
Ìwọ, ní rírìn nǹkan bí 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ìwọ, ní eré òwúrọ̀ nǹkan bí 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Àgbàlagbà alágbára tó ń sáré nǹkan bí 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ẹni tó ń gun kẹ̀kẹ́ lákọ̀ọ́kọ̀ nǹkan bí 37 km/h (23 mph)

Àwọn orísun

  1. Zombie - Wikipedia
  2. Zombies - Encyclopedia.com

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Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu láti àwọn ilẹ̀ kan náà

Clairvius NarcisseHaitian, 1980Felicia Felix-MentorHaitian, 1937The Lancet zombi cases (FI, WD and MM)Haitian, 1997

Sáà kan náà: 1500 sí 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
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