Clairvius Narcissus is a Haitian whose notoriety stems from the story he did that he would have been transformed into zombie then freed by his captors. It would have been part of so-called living dead who have been drugged during the duration of their slavery to make them work in refineries and plantations.
Story of zombification [edit]
Clairvius Narcisse was pronounced dead on May 2 1962 sequences of illness in hospital Deschapelles Haiti. He was buried the next day in a village near Esther. In 1980, 18 years later, a man had accosted the sister Clairvius Narcissus and would have presented as his brother and told would have been a victim of zombification from a houngan order his own brother after an inheritance.
It would have been told that after rubbing a "zombie powder", it would have helplessly witnessed his own funeral, claiming to see and hear but not speak or feel. After his funeral, we have unearthed then forced to work as slave on a plantation with other zombies.
In order to keep their slaves, farmers reportedly drugged to keep them in this state of "living dead". Clairvius Narcissus should have his regaining consciousness 2 years later to a supervisor who had forgotten to give him his daily dose of drugs.
He then wandered the country, fearing to encounter her brother, and only the latter's death he would have decided to return his sister to reveal his identity.
The hypothesis of Wade Davis [edit]
The following year, a Canadian anthropologist, Wade Davis, Became interested in this case, the idea of writing a long report (contained in the book The Serpent and the Rainbow Sky). Many criticize his work and put in doubt because of his / their beliefs, as he explained in detail in his book.
Davis assumes that the death of Narcissus has been an appearance, resulting from a drug supplied by the Bokor who persecuted. It is a powerful chilling plunge the body into a state of paralysis: the tetrodotoxin. This same substance in the cane toadAnd in the globe fish. Indeed, many Japanese chefs have lost their lives in trying to cook this delicious fish, or have suffered temporary paralysis, in which the analogy with the case of Narcissus is obvious.
Regarding the loss of memory and desire as well as obedience to the orders of the sorcerer Bokor, Davis and other experts have suggested at least three reasons that can coexist. The first, tetrodotoxin could retain its chilling effect on certain brain circuits, even after the resumption of motor activity, thereby inhibiting certain faculties of the individual. The second would have provided the bokor later drugs and hallucinogens to cause his victim to the effects mentioned above. The third, psychological in nature, we must consider the reputation of voodoo superstition in the lives of the people of Haiti. Cultural elements, combined with a strong auto, reportedly believing that Narcissus was really a living death. The suggestion would have been able to prevent the victim from any reaction against the spell which she believed hit.
At the time, in 1987, Davis's book has been brought to film by Wes Craven under the same name, The Serpent and the Rainbow Sky.
Notes and references [edit]
| [Roll] Haitian Voodoo | ||
|---|---|---|
| Religion | Oufo · Houngan · Mambo · Hounsi · Bokor · Asson · Veve · Bath luck · Zombi |  |
| Spirits | Babalu Aye · Ayida Wedo · Azaka · Ayizan · Baron Samedi · Damballa · Erzulie · Grand Bois · Guede · Lwa · Maman Brigitte · Marinette · Marassa Room · Ogun · Papa Legba · Simbi | |
| History | Dahomey · Yoruba · Ceremony of Bois-Caiman · Clairvius Narcissus · Ouidah | |
| Other religions Afro-American | Candomblé · Voodoo · Kumina · Macumba · Palo Mayombe · Quimbois · Santería (Lukumi) | |
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