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The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombies, and Magic is a 1985 book by anthropologist and researcher Wade Davis. He investigated Haitian Vodou and the process of making zombies .
The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 American horror film directed by Wes Craven and starring Bill Pullman.The script by Richard Maxwell and Adam Rodman is loosely based on the non-fiction book of the same name by ethnobotanist Wade Davis, wherein Davis recounted his experiences in Haiti investigating the story of Clairvius Narcisse, who was allegedly poisoned, buried alive, and revived with ...
Edmund Wade Davis CM (born December 14, 1953) is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, photographer, and writer. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow about the zombies of Haiti. He is professor of anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the ...
Today, he’s married to Margaret Carlton, a supervising sound editor know for “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” (1991) and “The Serpent and the Rainbow” (1988). Their son, Lowell Wilding ...
D. H. Lawrence. David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct.
The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the creator God, [ 1] known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples. It is a common motif in the art and religion of many Aboriginal Australian peoples. [ 2] Much like the archetypal mother goddess, the Rainbow ...
The Rainbow is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, first published by Methuen & Co. in 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire , [ 2 ] focusing particularly on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within the confining strictures of English social life.
Ayida-Weddo, also known as Ayida, Agida, Ayida-Wedo, Aido Quedo, Aido Wedo, Aida Wedo, and Aido Hwedo, is a powerful loa spirit in Vodou, revered in regions across Africa and the Caribbean, namely in Benin, Suriname and Haiti. [ 1] Known as the " Rainbow Serpent ", Ayida-Weddo is the loa of fertility, rainbows, wind, water, fire, wealth, [ 2 ...