Revealing the Mystery and History of Zombie
Zombies actually originate and
emerge from the island of Haiti in the Caribbean. They are almost dead people
then revived from the almost dead body by the priests or shamans Voodoo. They
are usually used as slaves for the rest of their miserable lives. Like humans,
zombies can move, eat, hear, and talk but they have no memory and insight into
their condition.
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History of Zombie
The legend of zombies has been
around for centuries, but only in 1980, a new case was documented. The story
began in 1962 in Haiti. A man named Clairivius Narcisse was sold to one of the
Voodoo Shamans by his brother because Clairivius refused to sell his share of
the family land.
Soon, Clairivius was made to die
and buried. However, he did not really die, but he was made into a zombie and
employed in sugarcane plantations with other zombie workers. In 1964, after the
zombie owners died, the zombies eventually spread and wandered through the
island in a state of the daze for about 16 years before they were arrested.
Revealing the Mystery of Zombie
Dr.Wade Davis, an ethnobiologist
from Harvard University decided to go to Haiti to examine the truth of the
story. There, he met some voodoo shamans who practiced zombie making. Basically
to make the zombie, make people die first and then make them crazy. So, their
minds can be subdued.
How to make them die is not as we
imagine such as by hit stab or others, but by a mixture of bufo frog skin and
puffer fish that is added to the food or applied to the skin. Because of the
toxic contents, a few minutes later, the victims will look like dead with very
slow and weak breath and heartbeat.
After they were buried by their
family, the shamans have to wait for about a few hours to dig and then take the
body. To make the victim crazy, the shamans force them to eat a kind of pasta
made from Datura or grass jimson.
Datura is a plant that contains
chemicals atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine which when consumed will cause
us to lose memory and breaks the mind with reality and then destroys all
existing memories. After consuming it, they will be confused and do not know
everything. After that, the zombie is sold to sugarcane plantations as slave
workers.
Conclusion
In fact, the actual zombie is not
as depicted in games or films that are generally dead who can rise again, walk,
then can move to attack humans. The real zombies are usually used as slaves for
the rest of their miserable lives.