Sin
from by now far away 1932, when celebre the actor
Bleats Lugosi interpreted with the maestria usual
the film zombi the white man, the topic has been
one of the preferred ones of the hollywoodiano
tradition, in full competition with history of
vampiri and myths to the Frankenstein, picking
one always increasing popolarità. Creed
that anyone has seen scenes of the zombi, memories
the suggestion of the scenes in which the living
dead men look at themselves to walk in the roads
in mechanical way, like many robots, indifferent
to the scariche of bullets that invest them in
full chest.
Being to the definition that appears in a famous
book, the zombi they are "those persons whose
died it has not only been ascertained, but that
they have been buried for a long time... and that
without warning ricompaiono, even also after years...
in living conditions completely obnubilata, like
if they were of the unconscious idiots".
One of the first western students to take care
of the phenomenon, observing some some strabilianti
cases, is one woman, grown in America. In the
October of 1936, in one they goes Haitian, came
completely found a woman knot that rambled without
memory. She was died to the age of ventinove years
and regularly buried. Our studious had gone to
make them visit in hospital and it describes like
a person "from the ace pale to it, the dead
eyes and eyelids white women as they had been
burnt dall’ acid ".
Being to how much it supports our studious, to
Has the persons to you became zombi if they betrayed
the secrets of magical the secret societies. Obviously
nobody believed, a lot to them that its same master,
speaking about she, it defines "the studious
decidedly a po' too much superstiziosa".
That in spite of, he same filler an episode that
has like protagonists two personages of the high
society. In creams, with the car that refused
to proceed, one of the two while it was trying
aid was imbattuto in a dwarf from the long beard
white woman who had invited it to house. It was
be a matter of a priest voodoo. Speaking, accortosi
of the skepticism that the man showed in the comparisons
of a powerful magical invocazione, the dwarf had
asked to it if for case knew a sure M. Celestin,
which, in effects, he had been a its friend. To
its signal of assent, like if it had been recalled
from a sovrannaturale force, a mysterious being
had made irruption in the room. Full load of terror,
the man had immediately recognized M. Celestin,
the died friend gives beyond 6 months. When the
zombi he had torn to it glances at them to it,
the man, although he scares it, had tried to resume
them, but the wizard glielo had prevented, rivelandogli
that not there was null more nefarious and pestifero
than to give or to take a whichever object from
the hands of one zombi, a dead man living. Then
he had confessed to it that the poor M. Celestin
had been died victim of a magical formula of scagliatagli
against from a wizard, that same one who after
to have made it to become a zombi glielo he had
sold for twenty dollars. All the other history
brought back from the master of the studious,
design an only and single hypothesis with respect
to the phenomenon of the zombi: draft of persons
deads who revive themselves. That in spite of,
continues to think the issue fruit of mere superstizione
and closes lì the speech. All the contrary,
therefore, of that it supports the studious. But
as we will see, the reason is from the part of
the audacious etnologa and they do not give that
one of the main skeptic.
The island of Has to you, in the Indians orients
them, came discovered from Cristoforo Columbus
in 1492, but it had been alone two centuries after
that had become famous like strategic base of
the pirati and bucanieri operations of. The coloni
French, numerous joints on the island, took to
cultivate the rich sugar cane plantations, being
taken advantage of the job of the enslaved important
black persons from Africa. In 1697 Spain, before
colonizzatrice of the place, it yielded the island
to France.
As all know, the slaves came deal to you with
inexpressibile punished cruelty and in orribili
ways, as an example hung to the trees with nail
conficcati in the orecchie or legacies and spalmati
of molasses, and given in meal to the orde of
giant ants and bugs. An other tremendous torture
consisted in filling up the ano of the poveretto
with powder from talks nonsense that it came primed
with one fuse. The body exploded and the victim
reduced itself to brandelli, in an operation that,
sorridendo, the French defined "the explosion
of the black ass". Rather than to submit
to similar treatments, the braver slaves scappavano
sheltering itself in the places more impervi,
on mountains. With the time, some zones therefore
had become off limits for people from the skin
white woman. Around 1740 one enslaved that had
lost an arm in the pressed one for the fabrication
of the sugar, it was successful to scappare repairing
in tenitori the shelter of the black ones, than
as it already had given itself to the spot. Here
it had taught the art of the poisoning. The use
of the poison against the oppressori white men.
In short, to the mass slaughter of the cattle
that one of many was continuation coloni. The
reaction had not been made to attend. The slave,
betrayed, had been captured, tried and condemned
to being burnt alive (even if, being to the legend,
it was successful newly to scappare in virtue
of its formidable magical powers). In any case,
from that moment in ahead the revolt it had begun
to serpeggiare with always greater virulenza in
the formations of the black slaves. Until, in
the course of the disorders of years Ninety, the
French dominion was collapsed and, for how much
then red-establish under Napoleone, it was not
never more successful to imporsi like once on
the island, in species in its inner zones. Until
the 1859 they were themselves therefore alternated
of the monarchs and black resisting, with unstable,
fluctuating governments from an anarchy almost
total at moments than absolute dispotismo and
blind, governments however always feed the hidden
power to you of the secret magical societies.
Our studious supported, with full conviction,
than the phenomenon that it called "zombificazione"
it was the effect obtained from the use of a velenosa
mixture that acted in instantaneous way. But nobody
had never given to them straight. Until, in the
most recent times, towards ending of years Eighty,
a young anthropologist American is joint high
same conclusion, discovering that the phenomenon
came induced from sure typical velenose substances
of the fish ball, a food that the Japanese consider
a leccornia, but that evidently she must be cooked
with extreme caution.
Interpellato from psichiatra of New York, dottor
a Nathan Kline, had found of forehead at least
two cases of extraordinary interest, that they
confirmed fully as the zombificazione intuita
from the studious was not myth but truth. The
first episode, going back to 1962, regarded a
Haitian of approximately cinquant’anni,
which it had been ricoverato in hospital. It suffered
from the highest fever, a lot that after two days
was died and had been buried the following day.
Eighteen years after, a man had introduced itself
near the house of Angelina, the sister of the
dead man, saying of being just he. He had said
of being zombizzato in order to want of the brother,
with which he had violentemente litigated for
the possession of a field. Captured from the coffin,
it had been sold and forced to work together with
others zombi. After two years the master was died
and it was scappato, girovagando in the island
for others sixteen years, but always remaining
hidden. Only when it had known that the brother
that it had zombizzato it was died had decided
itself to rifare itself alive.
Verified and strengthened the authentic identity
of quest’uomo, the BBC had drawn along filmato
from the history. In the same year, a nourished
group of zombi had been found to ramble in the
north of the island, exactly in those places where
ours zombi it had been forced to work hardly like
slave for beyond two years and from which was
escaped.
According to case it regarded a woman trentenne
of Francina name, of which as a result of a disease
had been recognized the dead women. Three years
after, the mother had found again it while still
alive and recognized also for via of one characteristic
scar that she had on the temple. Opened the coffin,
it had been found full of knows itself. According
to Francina, he had been the geloso husband to
kill it with a powerful poison.
In 1980 an other woman sessantenne, came found
to ramble without goal in its village natio between
the astonishment of all those who had known it,
inasmuch as officially she was died in 1964.
Reached to Hard in order to investigate on the
phenomenon, the attention of a famous investigator
above all had concentrated on the plant of Datura
stramonium, than the isolani they call the plant
of the zombi. The first encounter carried it to
know an expert of magic and folclore voodoo. Then
it had interviewed the cinquantenne returned from
the sister, that its history had totally confirmed
all. Also it had been victim of the badness of
a invidioso brother. These were a species of Casanova
of the island and had seeded sons illegittimi
a po' ovunque, than recognizing was watched well
and above all sostentare. To the end of its searches,
l’investigatore was reached the conclusion
that to put into effect a zombificazione ritual
was not always a malvagità action. Sure,
the secret magical societies did not enjoy a good
reputation, but very to observe to times they
were less negative than how much it was imagined
and of I do not shave their work was stiff to
the protection of more the weak people. In some
cases, to render zombi a man was also one risen
of punishment for its badly lead life.
To the fine l’investigatore it had put in
prominence three possible velenosi agents to which
the stregoni voodoo they were usual to address.
A substance was obtained from a large one rospo,
others two instead derived from two various varieties
of fish ball, therefore called because in case
of necessity or air and water danger, filling
up itself, it is in a position to increasing just
to the volume transforming itself in one true
and own ball of sea. In these substances the tetrodotoxina
is contained, a poison much powerful one that
in order to eliminate a man of enough one minimal
dose. We know from the per diem one of edge that
Cook captain had been seriously intossicato eating
liver and eggs of a fish ball. For the Japanese
draft equally of one ghiottoneria. They, in fact,
eat the raw meat of this fish - the plate is called
sashimi - but do not scorn also the dangerous
liver, that the velenose toxins attend however
to make to bubble to along to the aim eliminating
of all.
However, l’investigatore intuì that
also other elements concurred in the process of
zombificazione of a man. In its book to say little
extraordinary, it tells in fascinating way its
tried ones you to come in possession of one complete
magical pozione. The scope was, obviously, to
transfer all in an analysis laboratory and to
discover of the various members. But, also being
entered in confidenza with some houngan and also
having actively participated to numerous, impressive
ritualistiche ceremonies where, between the other,
it had way to assist to trance and to properties
from part of the spirits (in a case happened in
deep way therefore that the young medium could
calmly it is made to extinguish of cigarettes
ignited on the language without to perceive the
minimal pain) - it was not successful in the enterprise.
When it was in order to obtain that that it wished,
"supplying" presumed its was died to
the unexpected one and a second that it had to
it promised aid had been demolished from an apopletic
stroke. The conclusions which l’investigatore
lands are however clear: the zombificazione process
comes obtained with one popone magical most powerful,
obtained from velenose substances in a position
to inducing the symptoms of the dead women. Endured
after, the wizard somministra to the pretended
one died an antidote (l’investigatore has
tried to examine of some, succeeding in to establish
that the force and the power of the operator are
worth at least how much the effectiveness of the
antidote in if and for himself) that strange awakening
induces in the victim one. From that moment in
ahead, the zombi he is forced living like an automaton.
Ulterior somministrazioni of drugs render it of
its "landladies totally enslaved" who
can decide of he as better she wishes.
In 1984 in the course of a television program
of the BBC, the presentatore has confirmed that,
to how much it seems, the zombificazione process
happens indeed with the somministrazione of a
powerful poison whose effects ripercuotono on
the brain, reducing itself the state of knowledge
of the subject to one risen continually onirico
delirium.
To the end of the reading of the book written
from our investigator, one what appears sure:
the phenomenon of the zombi, of the living dead
men, those who "makes return" is unquestionably
real. However, this does not remove that some
between the labeled events as such they cannot
be ascribed to other tipologie of phenomena, various
from the magic voodoo that it supervises, mysterious,
to the alarming relative casuistry to the zombi. |
