Zombies Real vs' Reel

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ZombiesReal vs. Reel
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Vodun Zombies

• Mindless slaves
• Very real
• Truly feared by upper and lower classes (lower
  classes talk about it more openly)
• evil priest known as bocor performs ceremony

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Fictional Zombies

• Western culture exposed in 1929 with William
  Seabrooks The Magic Island
• 1932 Bela Lugosi, of Dracula fame, starred in
  White Zombie
• 1968 George Romeros Night of the Living Dead

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Zombie Controversy

• 1988 ethnobotanist, Wade Davis published his
  discoveries of tetrodotoxin in the zombie
  powders in his book The Serpent and the Rainbow.
• His work had many holes in it and faced
  fraudulent claims.

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Article 246 of Haitian Penal Code-documented in
1835

• classifies the administration of a substance
  that creates a prolonged period of lethargy
  without causing death as attempted murder. If the
  substance causes the appearance of death and
  results in the burial of the victim, the act is
  classified as murder.

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Do you believe?

• Do bocors have the power to raise and enslave
  the dead?
• Or is it just a potion like Juliet took to fool
  her family that she was dead so that she will
  live again with her husband Romeo?