I think zombies originated in Haiti... S. Florida is full of Haitians
Logic=Zombie :mrgreen:
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Haiti
In 1937, while researching
folklore in Haiti,
Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of a woman who appeared in a village, and a family claimed she was
Felicia Felix-Mentor, a relative who had died and been buried in 1907 at the age of 29. Hurston pursued rumors that the affected persons were given a powerful
psychoactive drug, but she was unable to locate individuals willing to offer much information. She wrote:
What is more, if science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than gestures of ceremony.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference">
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Several decades later,
Wade Davis, a Harvard
ethnobotanist, presented a pharmacological case for zombies in two books,
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and
Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (1988). Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and, as a result of his investigations, claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being introduced into the blood stream (usually via a wound). The first,
coup de poudre (French: "powder strike"), includes
tetrodotoxin (TTX), a powerful and frequently fatal neurotoxin found in the flesh of the
pufferfish (order
Tetraodontidae). The second powder consists of
dissociative drugs such as
datura. Together, these powders were said to induce a death-like state in which the will of the victim would be entirely subjected to that of the bokor. Davis also popularized the story of
Clairvius Narcisse, who was claimed to have succumbed to this practice.