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Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Legend of Zombie -The practice of Voodoo in Haiti

Zombie is a reference to the living dead in the belief system of Voodoo.

The story itself comes from the story of African-Caribbean spiritual, zombie is a human form whose his soul was stolen by a magical force.

According to the teachings of Voodoo, Voodoo priests also known as Bokor, have the ability to raise the dead. Bokor, often associated by the citizens as a manufacturer and operator of Zombie. Bokor themselves are a witch or Houngan. Houngan is a term for a male leader, while a woman named Mambo.

Some years later, an ethnobotanist graduate of Harvard Canada, Edmund Wade Davis, submit a startling statement about "how to make a zombie".

zombie voodoo haiti


He said that, people who are still alive can be turned into zombies, if given three specific ingredients powder into the first blood named coupe de poudre that contain tetrodotoxin, a kind of poison found in Puffer fish.

The second ingredient is the powder from the plant Datura. Datura has an effect of hallucinogen. Making people lose their will... and the third, Bufo bufo.

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