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Clairvius Narcisse (January 2, 1922 – 1994) was a Haitian man who claimed to have been turned into a zombie by a Haitian Vodou, and forced to work as a slave.. One hypothesis for Narcisse's account was that he had been administered a combination of psychoactive substances (often the paralyzing pufferfish venom tetrodotoxin and the strong deliriant Datura), which rendered him helpless and ...
The book presents the case of Clairvius Narcisse, a man who claims to have been a zombie for two years.While Narcisse claims the zombie state is from the supernatural influence of a bokor, Davis argues that the zombification process was more likely the result of a complex interaction of tetrodotoxin, a powerful hallucinogenic plant called Datura, and cultural forces and beliefs.
On 3 October 2024, the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, was the site of a massacre [1] perpetrated by the Gran Grif gang, leaving at least 115 people dead [2] and at least 50 injured. [3] Thousands more fled the town after the attack, which is part of the ongoing gang war in Haiti .
Haiti’s government says the country’s gangs have crossed a “red line” after allegedly killing over 180 people over the weekend, after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for ...
A gruesome hours-long gang attack in Haiti a couple of days ago left dozens dead, torching homes and cars, while forcing thousands more to run for their lives, in the latest blow to a country that ...
Since the government's de facto collapse in 2018, Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince has become a hotbed of anarchic gang activity with brutal murders and spates of killing. [1] This was exacerbated in 2021 by the assassination of Jovenel Moïse , leading most of the gangs in Port-au-Prince to ally with G9 or G-Pep . [ 1 ]
Jimmy Chérizier, one of the most powerful gang bosses in Haiti and the leader of the G9 gang federation, on 10 July called the assassination of the president a "national and international conspiracy" against Haiti, while blaming the police, opposition politicians and the business class of being behind the killing.
You might've thought zombies were the creation of science fiction writers, and while that may be true for human zombies, animals are a whole other story. 10 'zombie' animals that really exist Skip ...