Summary: The Truth About Zombies
Running head: The Truth about Zombies
The Truth about Zombies
Abstract
In this paper we’re going to look beyond what Hollywood has itched in our minds what a zombie is. We will discover what a “zonbi” really is. We’ll look in the zonbi’s Haitian and Vodoun background, how exactly a zombie is created, and why. We will distinguish the differences between what is make believe and what is real as we look into two specific kind of zombies that really exixst in the world today. After reading this paper no longer will there be any confusion or misinterpretation of what is a zombie, you the reader will be able to identify and understand exactly what a zombie really is. The Truth about Zombies
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They have the ability to turn someone into a zombie. Now when someone is turned into a zombie they die and come back to life as a mindless slave to the person who paid to have the curse put on them. Now as a zombie that person has a mindless slave to work for them and a free slave at that. That may sound a little farfetched, but they’re actually documented occasions of people that have been declared dead in Haiti, then years down the line that person has been seen alive and with the characteristics of a zombie. The cases studies were reported by British anthropologist Roland Littlewood and Haitian doctor Chavannes Douyon and concerned three individuals identified as zombies after they had apparently passed away.(-) Douyon’s study was a medical investigation into three ‘returned zombies’ – each of which was identified as a member of the family who had died and who had returned with the characteristic …show more content…
This feat was achieved by a man named St. Jean, who made his living (in the face of chronically high unemployment) as a bòkò, or sorcerer, in a neighborhood near the cemetery in downtown Port-au-Prince. St. Jean performed a complex ritual that infused human life into the bottle and transformed the container into a living grave, housing a human-spirit hybrid entity. In the bottle, the spirit-embedding medicine includes cemetery earth, but also more to the point, the skull shavings. At some previous time, St. Jean had most likely prepared the skulls in a sort of spirit-extracting ritual, treating them with baths of dew, rain, and sunshine. The skulls had been given food (which they absorb mystically (as spirits in the invisible world generally do) and had been baptized with new, ritual names. Their names would have been cryptic phrases such as “je m’engage” (“I’m trying”) or “al chache” (“Go look”). Each skull would have been charged with a specific strength, job, or problem to treat. Presumably, these skulls were activated with the ability to enhance luck, wealth, and health. “Spirit-admonishing medicines” instruct the zonbis in the work that they’re being commanded to do on my behalf. Ingeniously, this technology of good luck zonbi-making involves dressing the zonbis in the very instructions and work directions the maker intends them to perform. The mirrors around
The Truth about Zombies
Abstract
In this paper we’re going to look beyond what Hollywood has itched in our minds what a zombie is. We will discover what a “zonbi” really is. We’ll look in the zonbi’s Haitian and Vodoun background, how exactly a zombie is created, and why. We will distinguish the differences between what is make believe and what is real as we look into two specific kind of zombies that really exixst in the world today. After reading this paper no longer will there be any confusion or misinterpretation of what is a zombie, you the reader will be able to identify and understand exactly what a zombie really is. The Truth about Zombies
What comes to mind …show more content…
They have the ability to turn someone into a zombie. Now when someone is turned into a zombie they die and come back to life as a mindless slave to the person who paid to have the curse put on them. Now as a zombie that person has a mindless slave to work for them and a free slave at that. That may sound a little farfetched, but they’re actually documented occasions of people that have been declared dead in Haiti, then years down the line that person has been seen alive and with the characteristics of a zombie. The cases studies were reported by British anthropologist Roland Littlewood and Haitian doctor Chavannes Douyon and concerned three individuals identified as zombies after they had apparently passed away.(-) Douyon’s study was a medical investigation into three ‘returned zombies’ – each of which was identified as a member of the family who had died and who had returned with the characteristic …show more content…
This feat was achieved by a man named St. Jean, who made his living (in the face of chronically high unemployment) as a bòkò, or sorcerer, in a neighborhood near the cemetery in downtown Port-au-Prince. St. Jean performed a complex ritual that infused human life into the bottle and transformed the container into a living grave, housing a human-spirit hybrid entity. In the bottle, the spirit-embedding medicine includes cemetery earth, but also more to the point, the skull shavings. At some previous time, St. Jean had most likely prepared the skulls in a sort of spirit-extracting ritual, treating them with baths of dew, rain, and sunshine. The skulls had been given food (which they absorb mystically (as spirits in the invisible world generally do) and had been baptized with new, ritual names. Their names would have been cryptic phrases such as “je m’engage” (“I’m trying”) or “al chache” (“Go look”). Each skull would have been charged with a specific strength, job, or problem to treat. Presumably, these skulls were activated with the ability to enhance luck, wealth, and health. “Spirit-admonishing medicines” instruct the zonbis in the work that they’re being commanded to do on my behalf. Ingeniously, this technology of good luck zonbi-making involves dressing the zonbis in the very instructions and work directions the maker intends them to perform. The mirrors around